# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ma-huan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:19:44.713Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ma-huan"
name: "Ma Huan"
slug: "ma-huan"
description: "Ma Huan, courtesy name Zongdao, pen name Mountain-woodcutter (會稽山樵), was a Chinese explorer, translator, and travel writer who accompanied Admiral Zheng He on three of his seven expeditions to the Western Oceans. Ma was a Muslim and was born in Zhejiang's Kuaiji Commandery, an area within the modern borders of Shaoxing. He knew several Classical Chinese and Buddhist texts. He learned Arabic to be able to translate."
tagline: "Ming dynasty translator, voyager and writer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Yingya_Shenglan_%28Jilu_Huiban%29%2C_first_page.jpg/330px-Yingya_Shenglan_%28Jilu_Huiban%29%2C_first_page.jpg"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1380"
deathDate: "1460"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.17
  momentum:             6.091954022988504
  historical:           16.445504
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "马欢"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Chuan"
    title: "Ma Chuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ma Huan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ma Huan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ma Huan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Huan"
    title: "Ma Huan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ma Huan"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Huan"
    title: "Ma Huan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Huan"
    title: "Ma Huan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%ED%99%98"
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    title: "Ma Huan"
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    title: "Ма Хуань"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ma Huan"
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    title: "Ма Хуань"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump