# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-cunard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:25:38.510Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-cunard"
name: "Samuel Cunard"
slug: "samuel-cunard"
description: "Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet, was a British-Canadian shipping magnate, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard Line, establishing the first scheduled steamship connection with North America. He was the son of a master carpenter and timber merchant who had fled the American Revolution and settled in Halifax."
tagline: "Canadian-born British businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sir_Samuel_Cunard_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1787-11-21"
deathDate: "1865-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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