# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-tytler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:25:43.854Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-tytler"
name: "James Tytler"
slug: "james-tytler"
description: "James Tytler was a Scottish apothecary and the editor of the second edition of Encyclopædia Britannica. Tytler became the first person in Britain to fly by ascending in a hot air balloon (1784)."
tagline: "Scottish encyclopedist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Tytler.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1745-12-17"
deathDate: "1804-01-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.89
  momentum:             7.272727272727272
  historical:           8.938373333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Джеймс Тайтлер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چيمس تيتلير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tytler"
    title: "James Tytler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%AD%CE%B9%CE%BC%CF%82_%CE%A4%CE%AF%CF%84%CE%BB%CE%B5%CF%81"
    title: "Τζέιμς Τίτλερ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tytler"
    title: "James Tytler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tytler"
    title: "James Tytler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tytler"
    title: "James Tytler"
    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%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ジェームズ・タイトラー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tytler"
    title: "James Tytler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Тайтлер, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q504979"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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