# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sir-john-sinclair-1st-baronet
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:04:49.737Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sir-john-sinclair-1st-baronet"
name: "Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet"
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description: "Colonel Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet,, was a British politician, military officer and writer who was one of the first people to use the word \"statistics\" in the English language in his pioneering work, Statistical Accounts of Scotland, which was published in 21 volumes."
tagline: "Scottish politician, writer on finance and agriculture (1754–1835)"
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gender: "male"
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1754-05-10"
deathDate: "1835-12-21"
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