# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-evans
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:28:12.268Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-evans"
name: "James Evans"
slug: "james-evans"
description: "James Evans was an English-Canadian Wesleyan Methodist missionary and amateur linguist. He is known for creating the syllabic writing system for Ojibwe and Cree, which was later adapted to other languages such as Inuktitut."
tagline: "Canadian linguist (1801–1846)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Evans.gif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1801-01-18"
deathDate: "1846-11-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.47
  momentum:             9.923076923076922
  historical:           5.689886666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Evans"
    title: "James Evans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Evans_(Missionar)"
    title: "James Evans (Missionar)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Evans_(linguist)"
    title: "James Evans (linguist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81_(%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%81%D1%82)"
    title: "Джеймс Еванс (лінгвіст)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Evans"
    title: "James Evans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Evans"
    title: "James Evans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q562994"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump