# Mongkut

> A 19th-century Thai monarch who predicted a solar eclipse to the minute and opened his kingdom to Western science — then got flattened into a Broadway caricature that won Yul Brynner an Oscar and has been banned in Thailand ever since.

*King of Siam from 1851 to 1868*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/mongkut

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Historical Figure ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645))
- **Category:** Historical Figures
- **Born:** 1804-10-18
- **Died:** 1868-10-01
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Mongkut took the throne in 1851 and immediately did something unusual: he crowned his younger brother Pinklao as Second King and told the country to honor him as an equal. His reign came at the hinge moment when Western powers were circling Southeast Asia, and rather than resist the pressure with isolation, he leaned into modernization — importing technology, reforming institutions, engaging diplomacy. On 18 August 1868, he accurately predicted a total solar eclipse, a feat that became a calling card for Siam's entry into the scientific age and earned him the posthumous title "the Father of Science and Technology." He died six weeks later. In the West, none of that mattered: he's remembered almost entirely through *The King and I*, a 1951 musical that turned him into a strutting exotic, a role that won Yul Brynner an Academy Award and has been legally banned in his own country ever since.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 59.1 / 100
- **Momentum:** 4.6 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 24.2 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100

## Topics
#Politicians, #Historical Figure, #Royalty, #Politics, #19th Century

## Sources
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongkut)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312849)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Mongkut)
- [راما الرابع](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B9)
- [Mongkut](https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongkut)
- [রাজা মংকুট](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%9F)
- [Mongkut](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongkut)
- [Rama IV](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama_IV)
- [Mongkut](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongkut)
- [Mongkut](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongkut)
- [Mongkut](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongkut)
- [Mongkut](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongkut)
- [مونکوت](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%AA)
- [Mongkut](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongkut)
- [Rama IV](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama_IV)
- [ראמה הרביעי, מלך תאילנד](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%94_%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A2%D7%99%2C_%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%9A_%D7%AA%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%A0%D7%93)
- [मोंग्कुट](https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%9F)
- [IV. Ráma thaiföldi király](https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/IV._R%C3%A1ma_thaif%C3%B6ldi_kir%C3%A1ly)
- [Mongkut (Rama IV dari Siam)](https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongkut_(Rama_IV_dari_Siam))
- [Mongkut](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongkut)
- [ラーマ4世](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E4%E4%B8%96)
- [រាមាទី ៤](https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%9A%E1%9E%B6%E1%9E%98%E1%9E%B6%E1%9E%91%E1%9E%B8_%E1%9F%A4)
- [몽꿋](https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AA%BD%EA%BF%8B)
- [Mongkut (rex Siamensium)](https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongkut_(rex_Siamensium))
- [ພະບາດສົມເດັດພະຈອມເກົ້າເຈົ້າຢູ່ຫົວ](https://lo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BA%9E%E0%BA%B0%E0%BA%9A%E0%BA%B2%E0%BA%94%E0%BA%AA%E0%BA%BB%E0%BA%A1%E0%BB%80%E0%BA%94%E0%BA%B1%E0%BA%94%E0%BA%9E%E0%BA%B0%E0%BA%88%E0%BA%AD%E0%BA%A1%E0%BB%80%E0%BA%81%E0%BA%BB%E0%BB%89%E0%BA%B2%E0%BB%80%E0%BA%88%E0%BA%BB%E0%BB%89%E0%BA%B2%E0%BA%A2%E0%BA%B9%E0%BB%88%E0%BA%AB%E0%BA%BB%E0%BA%A7)
- [Wikiquote](https://ja.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E4%E4%B8%96)
- [Wikiquote](https://th.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B0%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%A1%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%94%E0%B9%87%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B0%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A1%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A5%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B2%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%88%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%B9%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%A7)
- [Mongkut](https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongkut)
- [راما الرابع](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B9)

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