# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-vries
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:58:12.387Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-vries"
name: "Martin Vries"
slug: "martin-vries"
description: "Maarten Gerritszoon Vries or Fries, also referred to as de Vries, was a 17th-century Dutch cartographer and explorer, the first Western European to leave an account of his visit to Ezo, Sakhalin, Kuril Islands and the Sea of Okhotsk."
tagline: "Dutch explorer of Japan (1589–1647)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/CEM-36-NE-corner.jpg/330px-CEM-36-NE-corner.jpg"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1589-02-18"
deathDate: "1647"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.0171
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "馬丁·黑利德松·弗里斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maarten Gerritsz Vries"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Мартин Геритсон де Фриз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maarten Gerritsz Vries"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maarten_Gerritszoon_de_Vries"
    title: "Maarten Gerritszoon de Vries"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maarten_Gerritszoon_Vries"
    title: "Maarten Gerritszoon Vries"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maarten_Gerritsz_Vries"
    title: "Maarten Gerritsz Vries"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maarten_Gerritszoon_de_Vries"
    title: "Maarten Gerritszoon de Vries"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marten_Gerrits_Vries"
    title: "Marten Gerrits Vries"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maarten_Gerritsz_Vries"
    title: "Maarten Gerritsz Vries"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "マルチン・ゲルリッツエン・フリース"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maarten_Gerritszoon_Vries"
    title: "Maarten Gerritszoon Vries"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B7%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Де Фриз, Мартин Геритсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maarten Gerritszoon Vries"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q249700"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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