# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pierre-jean-de-smet
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:13:25.018Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pierre-jean-de-smet"
name: "Pierre-Jean De Smet"
slug: "pierre-jean-de-smet"
description: "Pierre-Jean De Smet, SJ, also known as Pieter-Jan De Smet, was a Flemish Catholic priest and member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). He is known primarily for his widespread missionary work in the mid-19th century among the Native American peoples, in the midwestern and northwestern United States and western Canada."
tagline: "Jesuit priest and missionary (1801–1873)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pierre-Jean_De_Smet_-_Brady-Handy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1801-01-30"
deathDate: "1873-05-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.56
  momentum:             2.441271472617824
  historical:           11.86858
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Pierre-Jean De Smet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%88_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "بيير جان دو سميت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Jean_de_Smet"
    title: "Pierre-Jean de Smet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Jean_De_Smet"
    title: "Pierre-Jean De Smet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Jean_De_Smet"
    title: "Pierre-Jean De Smet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter-Jan_DeSmet_(misiisto)"
    title: "Pieter-Jan DeSmet (misiisto)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Jean_de_Smet"
    title: "Pierre-Jean de Smet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Jean_DeSmet"
    title: "Pierre-Jean DeSmet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Jean_De_Smet"
    title: "Pierre-Jean De Smet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Jean_De_Smet"
    title: "Pierre-Jean De Smet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Jean_De_Smet"
    title: "Pierre-Jean De Smet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter-Jan_De_Smet_(missionaris)"
    title: "Pieter-Jan De Smet (missionaris)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Jean_De_Smet"
    title: "Pierre-Jean De Smet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5_%D0%A1%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%82%2C_%D0%9F%D1%8C%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Де Смет, Пьер Жан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q981962"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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