# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-penn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:01:37.428Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-penn"
name: "Richard Penn"
slug: "richard-penn"
description: "Richard Penn Sr. was a proprietary and titular governor of the Province of Pennsylvania and the counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex, which then included present-day Delaware. He served as governor from 1746 to 1771. His father was William Penn, founder of the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania, one of the original Thirteen Colonies in British America"
tagline: "Proprietary and titular governor of the province of Pennsylvania (1706-1771)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Penn_by_Richard_or_Benjamin_Wilson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1706-01-17"
deathDate: "1771-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.549353333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  44
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Penn_Sr."
    title: "Richard Penn Sr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7328353"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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