# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-coryat
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:18:33.558Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-coryat"
name: "Thomas Coryat"
slug: "thomas-coryat"
description: "Thomas Coryat was an English traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age. He is principally remembered for two volumes of writings he left regarding his travels, often on foot, through Europe and parts of Asia. He is often credited with introducing the table fork to England, with \"Furcifer\" becoming one of his nicknames. His description of how the Italians shielded themselves from the sun resulted in the word \"umbrella\" being introduced into English."
tagline: "English traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Coryat_British_Traveller.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1577"
deathDate: "1617"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.19
  momentum:             0.1213592233009709
  historical:           9.630024
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Thomas Coryate"
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    title: "ಥಾಮಸ್ ಕಾರೀಯಾತ್"
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    title: "Thomas Coryat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D1%82%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Кориат, Томас"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump