# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-carmichael
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:24:55.148Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-carmichael"
name: "Alexander Carmichael"
slug: "alexander-carmichael"
description: "Alexander Carmichael was a Scottish exciseman, folklorist, antiquarian, and author. Between 1860 and his death Carmichael collected a vast amount of folklore, local traditions, natural history observations, antiquarian data, and material objects from people throughout the Scottish Highlands, particularly in the southern Outer Hebrides where he lived, worked, and brought up his family between 1864 and 1882. Alexander Carmichael is best known today for Carmina Gadelica, an influential but controversial compendium of edited Highland lore and literature published in six volumes between 1900 and 1971."
tagline: "British writer (1832–1912)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexander_Carmichael.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1832-12-01"
deathDate: "1912-06-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.7
  momentum:             0.4205607476635514
  historical:           4.608028
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  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%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "اليكساندير كارميتشايل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Carmichael"
    title: "Alexander Carmichael"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Carmichael"
    title: "Alexander Carmichael"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Carmichael"
    title: "Alexander Carmichael"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alasdair_Gilleasbaig_MacGilleMh%C3%ACcheil"
    title: "Alasdair Gilleasbaig MacGilleMhìcheil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2641917"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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