# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-dyer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:20:55.457Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-dyer"
name: "Samuel Dyer"
slug: "samuel-dyer"
description: "Samuel Dyer was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China in the Congregationalist tradition who worked among the Chinese in Malaysia. He arrived in Penang in 1827. Dyer, his wife Maria, and their family lived in Malacca and then in Singapore. He was known as a typographer for creating a steel typeface of Chinese characters for printing to replace traditional wood blocks. Dyer's type was accurate, aesthetically pleasing, durable, and practical."
tagline: "Missionary in China"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SamuelDyerPenang.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1804-02-20"
deathDate: "1843-10-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.26
  momentum:             18.84
  historical:           6.813464
  currentAttention:     0.5599999999999999
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Dyer"
    title: "Samuel Dyer"
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    title: "サミュエル・ダイア"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Dyer"
    title: "Samuel Dyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Dyer"
    title: "Samuel Dyer"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q262734"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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