# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-grenville
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:42:24.598Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-grenville"
name: "Richard Grenville"
slug: "richard-grenville"
description: "Sir Richard Grenville, also spelt Greynvile, Greeneville, and Greenfield, was an English privateer and explorer. Grenville was lord of the manors of Stowe, Cornwall and Bideford, Devon. He subsequently participated in the plantations of Ireland specifically the Munster plantations, the English colonisation of the Americas and the repulse of the Spanish Armada."
tagline: "English politician, soldier and explorer (1542-1591)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sir_Richard_Grenville_from_NPG.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1542-06-15"
deathDate: "1591-09-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             12.9085266768356
  historical:           11.61897733333333
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Richard Grenville"
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    title: "Richard Grenville"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Grenville"
    title: "Richard Grenville"
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    title: "Ռիչարդ Գրենվիլ"
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    title: "Richard Grenville"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Grenville"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump