# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leo-africanus
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:34:29.671Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leo-africanus"
name: "Leo Africanus"
slug: "leo-africanus"
description: "Johannes Leo Africanus was an Andalusi diplomat and author who is best known for his 1526 book Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica, later published by Giovanni Battista Ramusio as Descrittione dell'Africa in 1550, centered on the geography of the Maghreb and Nile Valley. The book was regarded among his scholarly peers in Europe as the most authoritative treatise on the subject until the modern exploration of Africa. For this work, Leo became a household name among European geographers. He converted from Islam to Christianity and changed his name to Johannes Leo de Medicis. Leo possibly returned to North Africa in 1528."
tagline: "An Andalusi diplomat and author who is best known for his 1526 book Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica, later published by Giovanni Battista Ramusio as Descrittione dell'Africa in 1550, centered"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sebastiano_del_Piombo_Portrait_of_a_Humanist.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Public Official"
  slug: "public-official"
birthDate: "1494"
deathDate: "1600"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.26
  momentum:             0.170786040097592
  historical:           22.145168
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ليون الإفريقي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikal%C4%B1_Lev"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leo Africanus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leo Africanus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump