# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rene-goulaine-de-laudonniere
# Generated: 2026-08-16T11:09:43.052Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rene-goulaine-de-laudonniere"
name: "René Goulaine de Laudonnière"
slug: "rene-goulaine-de-laudonniere"
description: "Rene Goulaine de Laudonnière was a French Huguenot explorer and the founder of the French colony of Fort Caroline in what is now Jacksonville, Florida. Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, a Huguenot, sent Jean Ribault and Laudonnière to explore potential sites in Florida suitable for settlement by the French Protestants."
tagline: "French Huguenot explorer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Laudonniere.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1542"
deathDate: "1582"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.953961333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "René Goulaine de Laudonnière"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "René Goulaine de Laudonnière"
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    title: "René Goulaine de Laudonnière"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Goulaine_de_Laudonni%C3%A8re"
    title: "René Goulaine de Laudonnière"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_de_Goulaine_de_Laudonni%C3%A8re"
    title: "René de Goulaine de Laudonnière"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Goulaine_de_Laudonni%C3%A8re"
    title: "René Goulaine de Laudonnière"
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    title: "René Goulaine de Laudonnière"
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    title: "르네 굴렌 드 루도니에르"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump