# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-macarthur
# Generated: 2026-09-07T17:15:37.101Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-macarthur"
name: "John Macarthur"
slug: "john-macarthur"
description: "John Macarthur was a British Army officer, landowner, and politician, best remembered as a key organiser of the 1808 Rum Rebellion and a pioneer of the Australian Merino wool industry. Born in England, Macarthur joined the nascent New South Wales Corps in 1789; he quickly established himself as a particularly unscrupulous, volatile, and entrepreneurial member of the so-called 'Rum Corps'."
tagline: "British army officer, entrepreneur, politician, architect and pioneer in Australia (1767-1834)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Macarthur.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1767"
deathDate: "1834-04-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.381573333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Macarthur_(wool_pioneer)"
    title: "John Macarthur (wool pioneer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AB%D8%B1_(%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%AF_%D8%B5%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A9_%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81)"
    title: "جون ماكارثر (رائد صناعة صوف)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AB%D8%B1"
    title: "جون ماكارثر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Macarthur_(Politiker)"
    title: "John Macarthur (Politiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Macarthur_(colonial_officer)"
    title: "John Macarthur (colonial officer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Macarthur"
    title: "John Macarthur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ジョン・マッカーサー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1700948"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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