# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mel-fisher
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:01:44.724Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mel-fisher"
name: "Mel Fisher"
slug: "mel-fisher"
description: "Mel Fisher was an American treasure hunter who spent decades treasure hunting in the Florida Keys and is best known for finding the 1622 wreck of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha in the 1980s."
tagline: "American treasure hunter (1922-1998)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1922-08-21"
deathDate: "1998-12-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.98
  momentum:             2.944700460829493
  historical:           6.836705333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0279687/"
    handle:    "nm0279687"
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC"
    title: "メル・フィッシャー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Fisher"
    title: "Mel Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Fisher"
    title: "Mel Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84_%D9%81%DB%8C%D8%B4%D8%B1"
    title: "مل فیشر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Fisher"
    title: "Mel Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Fisher"
    title: "Mel Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3275590"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2876406"
    title: "Mel Fisher"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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