# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rene-caillie
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:37:24.734Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rene-caillie"
name: "René Caillié"
slug: "rene-caillie"
description: "Auguste René Caillié was a French explorer and the first European to return alive from the town of Timbuktu. Caillié had been preceded at Timbuktu by a British officer, Major Gordon Laing, who was murdered in September 1826 on leaving the city. Caillié was therefore the first to return alive."
tagline: "French explorer (1799–1838)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ren%C3%A9_Cailli%C3%A9.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1799-11-19"
deathDate: "1838-05-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52
  momentum:             1.185770750988143
  historical:           20.41984133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Рене Огюст Кає"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "René Caillié"
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    title: "Auguste René Caillié"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "René Caillié"
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    title: "René Caillié"
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    title: "René Caillié"
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    title: "René Caillié"
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    title: "Кайе, Рене"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Рене Каије"
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    title: "René Caillié"
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  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rene_Auguste_Caillie"
    title: "Rene Auguste Caillie"
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    title: "Рене Калье"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump