# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-rennell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:13:50.768Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-rennell"
name: "James Rennell"
slug: "james-rennell"
description: "Major James Rennell was an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography. Rennell produced some of the first accurate maps of Bengal at one inch to five miles as well as accurate outlines of India and served as Surveyor General of Bengal. Rennell has been called the Father of Oceanography. In 1830, he was one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society in London."
tagline: "English geographer, historian and oceanographer (1742–1830)"
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gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1742-12-03"
deathDate: "1830-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump