# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/osman-i
# Generated: 2026-09-01T09:34:48.272Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/osman-i"
name: "Osman I"
slug: "osman-i"
description: "He led a minor Turkic principality on the edge of Byzantine territory and died around 1323 — but his name stuck to an empire that lasted six hundred years. Almost nothing certain survives from his lifetime; the Ottomans themselves didn't write his story down until a century after his death."
tagline: "Founder of the Ottoman Empire (died 1323/4)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/I._Osman_Han.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1258-08-23"
deathDate: "1326-08-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           68
  momentum:             1.104524685910388
  historical:           27.258396
  currentAttention:     14.25484307616962
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  127
  category: null
tags:
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    slug: "politician"
  - name: "Politics"
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  - name: "Turkey"
    slug: "turkey"
  - name: "Middle East"
    slug: "middle-east"
  - name: "Medieval Era"
    slug: "medieval-era"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "عثمان الاول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Osmán I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ғосман I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Osman Gazi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Osman I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Osman I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osman_I."
    title: "Osman I."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osman_1."
    title: "Osman 1."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osman_I."
    title: "Osman I."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usman_I"
    title: "Usman I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dtp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uthman_I"
    title: "Uthman I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Οσμάν Α΄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osman_I"
    title: "Osman I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Osman inherited or carved out a small beylik in Bithynia, one of many Turkoman statelets that appeared across Anatolia in the late thirteenth century. His domain sat along the Byzantine frontier, well positioned for raiding weakened Christian lands. What he actually did in life is nearly impossible to reconstruct — not a single document from his reign exists, and Ottoman chroniclers only began shaping his legend in the 1400s, more than a hundred years gone. Later tradition claimed his family descended from the noble Kayı branch of the Oghuz Turks, though most historians now read that as invented pedigree. He died in 1323 or 1324, leaving a principality that would, across the centuries, become the Ottoman Empire — a state that endured until 1922.