# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-macbain
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:16:33.348Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-macbain"
name: "Alexander Macbain"
slug: "alexander-macbain"
description: "Alexander MacBain was a Scottish philologist, best known today for An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (1896)."
tagline: "Scottish philologist (1855–1907)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexander_Macbain_photo%2C_from_An_Etymological_Dictionary_of_the_Gaelic_Language.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1855-07-22"
deathDate: "1907-04-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.96
  momentum:             8.292682926829269
  historical:           5.072066666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Macbain"
    title: "Alexander Macbain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - 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%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "اليكساندر ماكباين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Macbain"
    title: "Alexander Macbain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alasdair_MacGilleBh%C3%A0in"
    title: "Alasdair MacGilleBhàin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Macbain"
    title: "Alexander Macbain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alasdair_MacGilleBh%C3%A0in"
    title: "Alasdair MacGilleBhàin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4719488"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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