# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-baptiste-point-du-sable
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:17:10.632Z

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name: "Jean Baptiste Point du Sable"
slug: "jean-baptiste-point-du-sable"
description: "Jean Baptiste Point du Sable is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder. The site where he settled near the mouth of the Chicago River around the 1780s is memorialized as a National Historic Landmark, now located in Pioneer Court."
tagline: "Early founder of Chicago"
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gender: "male"
birthDate: "1745"
deathDate: "1818-08-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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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