# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mathieu-da-costa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:09:11.941Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mathieu-da-costa"
name: "Mathieu da Costa"
slug: "mathieu-da-costa"
description: "Mathieu da Costa was an Afro-French member of the exploring party of Pierre Dugua, the Sieur de Monts, and Samuel de Champlain that travelled from France to the New World in the early 17th century. He was the first recorded free black person to arrive on the territory of today's Canada."
tagline: "Canadian explorer"
gender: "male"
deathDate: "1619"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.93
  momentum:             5.004838608977961
  historical:           7.044388
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%94_%D0%B4%D0%B0_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0"
    title: "Матьє да Коста"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%AF_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "ماثيو د كوستا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathieu_da_Costa"
    title: "Mathieu da Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathieu_de_Costa"
    title: "Mathieu de Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathieu_da_Costa"
    title: "Mathieu da Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mateus_da_Costa"
    title: "Mateus da Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%91_%D0%B4%D0%B0"
    title: "Коста, Матьё да"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathieu_de_Costa"
    title: "Mathieu de Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3244976"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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