# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yan-fu
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:46:33.945Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yan-fu"
name: "Yan Fu"
slug: "yan-fu"
description: "Yan Fu (simplified Chinese: 严复; traditional Chinese: 嚴復; pinyin: Yán Fù; Wade–Giles: Yen2 Fu4; courtesy name Ji Dao (幾道); 8 January 1854 – 27 October 1921) was a Chinese military officer, newspaper editor, translator, and writer. He is most known for introducing Western ideas to China during the late 19th century."
tagline: "Chinese translator (1854–1921)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yan_fu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1854-01-08"
deathDate: "1921-10-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.39237866666667
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  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