# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-oglethorpe
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:07:57.090Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-oglethorpe"
name: "James Oglethorpe"
slug: "james-oglethorpe"
description: "Lieutenant-General James Edward Oglethorpe was a British army officer, Tory politician and colonial administrator best known for founding the Province of Georgia in British North America. As a social reformer, he hoped to resettle Britain's \"worthy poor\" in the New World, initially focusing on those in debtors' prisons."
tagline: "British Army general, founder of the Georgia colony (1696-1785)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Edward_Oglethorpe_by_Alfred_Edmund_Dyer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1696-12-22"
deathDate: "1785-06-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           20.836376
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 232
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump