# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alex-woolf
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:17:30.898Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alex-woolf"
name: "Alex Woolf"
slug: "alex-woolf"
description: "Alex Woolf is a British medieval historian and academic. He specialises in the history of Britain and Ireland and to a lesser extent Scandinavia in the Early Middle Ages, with a particular emphasis on interaction and comparison across traditional ethnic boundaries. He is a senior lecturer at the University of St Andrews."
tagline: "British historian"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1963"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.74
  momentum:             6.315789473684211
  historical:           7.010548
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Alex Woolf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Woolf"
    title: "Alex Woolf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Woolf"
    title: "Alex Woolf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Woolf"
    title: "Alex Woolf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Woolf"
    title: "Alex Woolf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Woolf"
    title: "Alex Woolf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Woolf"
    title: "Alex Woolf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Woolf"
    title: "Alex Woolf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2623134"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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