# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-de-hoyarcabal
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:01:34.487Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-de-hoyarcabal"
name: "Martin de Hoyarçabal"
slug: "martin-de-hoyarcabal"
description: "Martin de Hoyarçabal was a French Basque mariner. Little is generally known about his life. He was born in Ciboure, in the Iparralde, the French Basque Country. He is recognized for publishing one of the first Newfoundland pilots, a book which describes places and distances to aid sailors in navigation, in 1579. Les voyages aventureux du Capitaine Martin de Hoyarsabal, habitant du çubiburu was published in French and was widely used by French and Spanish mariners for almost a century."
tagline: "French writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1501"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.938229333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_de_Hoyarsabal"
    title: "Martin de Hoyarsabal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_de_Hoyar%C3%A7abal"
    title: "Martin de Hoyarçabal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Oihartzabal"
    title: "Martin Oihartzabal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_de_Hoyarsabal"
    title: "Martin de Hoyarsabal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12263166"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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