# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-hemings
# Generated: 2026-09-01T10:45:35.455Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-hemings"
name: "James Hemings"
slug: "james-hemings"
description: "James Hemings was the first American to train as a chef in France. Three-quarters white in ancestry, he was born into slavery in Virginia in 1765. At eight years old, he was purchased by Thomas Jefferson at his residence of Monticello."
tagline: "American chef and enslaved person"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Hemings%2C_American_chef.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Chefs"
  slug: "chefs"
profileType:
  name: "Chef"
  slug: "chef"
birthDate: "1765"
deathDate: "1801"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.6
  momentum:             19.99830335934849
  historical:           3.225786666666667
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 112
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hemings"
    title: "James Hemings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hemings"
    title: "James Hemings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hemings"
    title: "James Hemings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6135835"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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