# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-holman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:28:50.621Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-holman"
name: "James Holman"
slug: "james-holman"
description: "James Holman FRS, known as the \"Blind Traveller,\" was a British adventurer, author and social observer, best known for his writings on his extensive travels. Completely blind and experiencing pain and limited mobility, he undertook a series of solo journeys that were unprecedented both in their extent of geography and method of \"human echolocation\". In 1866, the journalist William Jerdan wrote that \"From Marco Polo to Mungo Park, no three of the most famous travellers, grouped together, would exceed the extent and variety of countries traversed by our blind countryman.\" In 1832, Holman became the first blind person to circumnavigate the globe. He continued travelling, and by October 1846 had visited every inhabited continent."
tagline: "British Royal Navy officer (1787-1857)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James.Holman.by.George.Chinnery.1830.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1787-10-15"
deathDate: "1857-07-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.83
  momentum:             1.420959147424511
  historical:           8.756481333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "چيمس هولمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Holman"
    title: "James Holman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Holman"
    title: "James Holman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Holman"
    title: "James Holman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ジェームズ・ホルマン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Holman"
    title: "James Holman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Холман, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Holman"
    title: "James Holman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Джеймс Холман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q330191"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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