# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/menelaus-of-alexandria
# Generated: 2026-08-16T11:36:02.134Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/menelaus-of-alexandria"
name: "Menelaus of Alexandria"
slug: "menelaus-of-alexandria"
description: "Menelaus of Alexandria was a Greek mathematician and astronomer, the first to recognize geodesics on a curved surface as natural analogs of straight lines."
tagline: "Greek mathematician and astronomer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "70"
deathDate: "140"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.77
  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.37336533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "İskenderiyeli Menelaus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "منيلاوس الإسكندري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0sk%C9%99nd%C9%99riyy%C9%99li_Menelay"
    title: "İskəndəriyyəli Menelay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_(%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menelau_d'Alexandria"
    title: "Menelau d'Alexandria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menelaos_(Mathematiker)"
    title: "Menelaos (Mathematiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Μενέλαος ο Αλεξανδρεύς"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menelaus_of_Alexandria"
    title: "Menelaus of Alexandria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menelao_de_Alejandr%C3%ADa"
    title: "Menelao de Alejandría"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Menelao Alexandriakoa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "منلائوس (ریاضی‌دان)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ménélaos d'Alexandrie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menelaos_dari_Aleksandria"
    title: "Menelaos dari Aleksandria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menelao_di_Alessandria"
    title: "Menelao di Alessandria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "アレクサンドリアのメネラウス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "მენელაე ალექსანდრიელი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menelaos_fra_Alexandria"
    title: "Menelaos fra Alexandria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menelaos_z_Aleksandrii"
    title: "Menelaos z Aleksandrii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menelau_de_Alexandria"
    title: "Menelau de Alexandria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menelau_din_Alexandria"
    title: "Menelau din Alexandria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Менелай Александрийский"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Menelaj Aleksandrijski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menelaj_Aleksandrijski"
    title: "Menelaj Aleksandrijski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menelaos_fr%C3%A5n_Alexandria"
    title: "Menelaos från Alexandria"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%81"
    title: "அலெக்சாந்திரியாவின் மெனலாசு"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q451572"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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