# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matthew-vassar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:57:06.103Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matthew-vassar"
name: "Matthew Vassar"
slug: "matthew-vassar"
description: "Matthew Vassar was an English-American brewer, merchant, and philanthropist. He founded Vassar College, a women’s college, in 1861. He was a cousin of John Ellison Vassar. The city of Vassar, Michigan, is named after him."
tagline: "American brewer & philanthropist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Matthew_Vassar_by_Charles_Loring_Elliott.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1792-04-29"
deathDate: "1868-06-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.61
  momentum:             0.4797353184449959
  historical:           5.512278666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Vassar"
    title: "Matthew Vassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A5%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%89_%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0"
    title: "ম্যাথিউ ভাসার"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Vassar"
    title: "Matthew Vassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Vassar"
    title: "Matthew Vassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Vassar"
    title: "Matthew Vassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Vassar"
    title: "Matthew Vassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6791358"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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