# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-leurechon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:00:03.701Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-leurechon"
name: "Jean Leurechon"
slug: "jean-leurechon"
description: "Jean Leurechon was a French Jesuit priest, astronomer, and mathematician, known for inventing the pigeonhole principle and naming the thermometer."
tagline: "French mathematician (1591-1670)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Leurechon%2C_Jean_%E2%80%93_R%C3%A9cr%C3%A9ations_math%C3%A9matiques%2C_1642_%E2%80%93_BEIC_197163.jpg/330px-Leurechon%2C_Jean_%E2%80%93_R%C3%A9cr%C3%A9ations_math%C3%A9matiques%2C_1642_%E2%80%93_BEIC_197163.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1591-05-15"
deathDate: "1670-01-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.871670666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Leurechon"
    title: "Jean Leurechon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Leurechon"
    title: "Jean Leurechon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Leurechon"
    title: "Jean Leurechon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%91%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%88%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Лёрешон, Жан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Leurechon"
    title: "Jean Leurechon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Leurechon"
    title: "Jean Leurechon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3173201"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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