# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-madden
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:46:57.613Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-madden"
name: "Samuel Madden"
slug: "samuel-madden"
description: "Samuel Madden was an Irish author. His works include Themistocles; The Lover of His Country, Reflections and Resolutions Proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland, and Memoirs of the Twentieth Century. Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote of him, \"His was a name which Ireland ought to honour\". He suggested that the Royal Dublin Society initiate a scheme to fund improvements in agriculture and arts in Ireland via the use of premiums – the source of his nickname Premium."
tagline: "Irish writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Samuel_Madden_(4673796).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1686"
deathDate: "1765"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.85
  momentum:             3.607142857142857
  historical:           5.271346666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Madden_(author)"
    title: "Samuel Madden (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Madden"
    title: "Samuel Madden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Madden"
    title: "Samuel Madden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Madden"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Madden"
    title: "Samuel Madden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Madden"
    title: "Samuel Madden"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3807602"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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