# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-eliot
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:00:34.082Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-eliot"
name: "John Eliot"
slug: "john-eliot"
description: "John Eliot was a Puritan missionary to Native Americans who some called \"the apostle to the Indians\", and the founder of Roxbury Latin School in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645. In 1660 he completed the enormous task of translating the Eliot Indian Bible into the Massachusett language, producing more than two thousand completed copies."
tagline: "Puritan missionary to the American Indians"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Appletons'_Eliot_John.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1604-08-05"
deathDate: "1690-05-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.235618862994648
  historical:           15.79489333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "John Eliot"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump