# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/uthman-dan-fodio
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:02:47.801Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/uthman-dan-fodio"
name: "Uthman Dan Fodio"
slug: "uthman-dan-fodio"
description: "Shehu Usman dan Fodio was a Fulani scholar, Islamic religious teacher, poet, revolutionary and a philosopher who founded the Sokoto Caliphate and ruled as its first caliph."
tagline: "Founder of the Sokoto Caliphate"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Usman_Ibn_Fodio_Calligraphy_02.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1754-12-15"
deathDate: "1817"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  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