# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-h-geoghegan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:00:29.238Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-h-geoghegan"
name: "Richard H. Geoghegan"
slug: "richard-h-geoghegan"
description: "Richard Henry Geoghegan was an Anglo-American philologist and the first known Esperantist from the English-speaking world. As a young man, he emigrated to the United States, first living in Washington state and then in the Alaska Territory."
tagline: "British Esperantist (1866–1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Henry_Geoghegan_ca_1895.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1866-01-08"
deathDate: "1943-10-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.068898666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A7%DA%86._%DA%AF%DB%8C%DA%AF%D9%86"
    title: "ریچارد اچ. گیگن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_H._Geoghegan"
    title: "Richard H. Geoghegan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Geoghegan"
    title: "Richard Geoghegan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_H._Geoghegan"
    title: "Richard H. Geoghegan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_H._Geoghegan"
    title: "Richard H. Geoghegan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_H._Geoghegan"
    title: "Richard H. Geoghegan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4376939"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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