# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jeremiah-dixon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:11:43.028Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jeremiah-dixon"
name: "Jeremiah Dixon"
slug: "jeremiah-dixon"
description: "Jeremiah Dixon was an English surveyor and astronomer best known for surveying the Mason–Dixon line with Charles Mason from 1763 to 1767. The line came to mark the borders between Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware. Dixon's name may be the origin for the nickname Dixie used in reference to the Southern United States."
tagline: "English surveyor and astronomer (1733–1779)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mason_and_Dixon_(just_Dixon).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1733-07-27"
deathDate: "1779-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Jeremiah Dixon"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump