# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-cairncross
# Generated: 2026-08-20T22:52:57.107Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-cairncross"
name: "Alexander Cairncross"
slug: "alexander-cairncross"
description: "Sir Alexander Kirkland Cairncross, known as Sir Alec Cairncross, was a British economist. He was the brother of the Soviet spy John Cairncross and father of journalist Frances Cairncross and public health engineer and epidemiologist Sandy Cairncross."
tagline: "British economist (1911-1998)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/Sir_Alexander_Kirkland_Cairncross.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
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: "1911-02-11"
deathDate: "1998-10-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.076746666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "اليكساندر كايرنكروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Cairncross"
    title: "Alec Cairncross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Cairncross_(economist)"
    title: "Alexander Cairncross (economist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4718496"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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