# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-horsburgh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:16:38.758Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-horsburgh"
name: "James Horsburgh"
slug: "james-horsburgh"
description: "James Horsburgh F.R.S was a Scottish hydrographer. He worked for the British East India Company, (EIC) and mapped many seaways in the Indian Ocean, the Malay Archipelago, and China in the late 18th century and early 19th century. He is best-known for the India Directory, a set of sailing directions that became a standard work for over half a century."
tagline: "British hydrographer (1762–1836)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/The_Maldiva_Islands-Captain_Horsburgh-1814.png/330px-The_Maldiva_Islands-Captain_Horsburgh-1814.png"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1762-09-23"
deathDate: "1836-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.874622666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "James Horsburgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Horsburgh"
    title: "James Horsburgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Horsburgh"
    title: "James Horsburgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A9%B9%E5%A7%86%E5%A3%AB%C2%B7%E9%9C%8D%E5%B0%94%E6%96%AF%E5%A0%A1"
    title: "詹姆士·霍尔斯堡"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Хорсбург, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Horsburgh"
    title: "James Horsburgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15457099"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump