# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-easton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:40:09.602Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-easton"
name: "Peter Easton"
slug: "peter-easton"
description: "Peter Easton was an English privateer and later pirate in the early 17th century. Conflicting accounts exist regarding his early life. By 1602, Easton had become a highly successful privateer, commissioned to protect English interests in Newfoundland. The 'most famous English pirate of the day', his piracies ranged from Ireland and Guinea to Newfoundland. He is best known today for his involvement in the early English settlement of Newfoundland, including the settlements at Harbour Grace and Ferryland from 1611 to 1614. One of the most successful of all pirates, he controlled such seapower that no sovereign or state could afford to ignore him, and he was never overtaken or captured by any fleet commissioned to hunt him down. However, he is not as well known as some of the pirates from the late 17th and early 18th centuries."
tagline: "Canadian pirate"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1570"
deathDate: "1601"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.698418666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Easton"
    title: "Peter Easton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بيتر ايستون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Easton"
    title: "Peter Easton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Easton"
    title: "Peter Easton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Easton"
    title: "Peter Easton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Easton"
    title: "Peter Easton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3376555"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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