# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-falkner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:39:24.117Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-falkner"
name: "Thomas Falkner"
slug: "thomas-falkner"
description: "Thomas Falkner was an English Jesuit missionary, explorer and physician, active in the Patagonia region for nearly forty years. His primary work, The Description of Patagonia, was written towards the idea of English colonization, but it remains valuable as a record of early life, flora and fauna of the region. He is credited with recording the first fossil in present-day Argentina."
tagline: "British missionary"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1702-10-06"
deathDate: "1784-01-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.65
  momentum:             3.399918467183042
  historical:           6.808568
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Falkner"
    title: "Thomas Falkner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "توماس فالكنير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Falkner"
    title: "Thomas Falkner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Falkner"
    title: "Thomas Falkner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_Falkner"
    title: "Tomás Falkner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Falkner"
    title: "Thomas Falkner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Falkner"
    title: "Thomas Falkner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Falkner"
    title: "Thomas Falkner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7789508"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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