# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-knight
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:11:40.180Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-knight"
name: "John Knight"
slug: "john-knight"
description: "John Knight was a British explorer of Greenland and Labrador. He is known for two expeditions: he was a member of a Danish exploration of the coast of Greenland, and he led an expedition to discover the Northwest Passage, during which he was lost."
tagline: "British mariner, died 1606?"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1700"
deathDate: "1606-06-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.682218666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knight_(seafarer)"
    title: "John Knight (seafarer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knight"
    title: "John Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knight_(Entdecker)"
    title: "John Knight (Entdecker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knight_(denizci)"
    title: "John Knight (denizci)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knight_(marino)"
    title: "John Knight (marino)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knight"
    title: "John Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18527167"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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