# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-maclear
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:50:05.484Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-maclear"
name: "Thomas Maclear"
slug: "thomas-maclear"
description: "Thomas Maclear was an Irish-born Cape Colony astronomer who became Her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope."
tagline: "South African astronomer (1794–1879)"
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birthDate: "1794-03-17"
deathDate: "1879-07-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump