# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-baker
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:56:09.750Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-baker"
name: "Samuel Baker"
slug: "samuel-baker"
description: "Sir Samuel White Baker was an English explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. He also held the titles of Pasha and Major-General in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. He served as the Governor-General of the Equatorial Nile Basin between April 1869 and August 1873, which he established as the Province of Equatoria."
tagline: "British explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist (1821–1893)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sir-Baker.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1821-06-08"
deathDate: "1893-12-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             10
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  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump