# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marcus-whitman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:44:19.994Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marcus-whitman"
name: "Marcus Whitman"
slug: "marcus-whitman"
description: "Marcus Whitman was an American physician and missionary. He is most well known for leading American settlers across the Oregon Trail, unsuccessfully attempting to Christianize the Cayuse Indians, and was subsequently killed by the Cayuse Indians in an event known as the 1847 Whitman massacre, over a misunderstanding, resulting in the beginning of the Cayuse War (1847–1855)."
tagline: "American physician and Oregon missionary (1802-1847)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marcus_Whitman%2C_ca._1895_-_DPLA_-_aa6b0038ac3c27c768095c16dff49db1_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1802-09-04"
deathDate: "1847-11-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.52
  momentum:             5.598086124401913
  historical:           9.001985333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Marcus Whitman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ماركوس ويتمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماركوس ويتمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Whitman"
    title: "Marcus Whitman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Whitman"
    title: "Marcus Whitman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Whitman"
    title: "Marcus Whitman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Whitman"
    title: "Marcus Whitman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Whitman"
    title: "Marcus Whitman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Whitman"
    title: "Marcus Whitman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%82%A4%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3"
    title: "マーカス・ホイットマン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q979972"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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