# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-mccall-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:52:35.074Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-mccall-smith"
name: "Alexander McCall Smith"
slug: "alexander-mccall-smith"
description: "Sir Alexander \"Sandy\" McCall Smith is a Scottish legal scholar and author of fiction. He was born and brought up in Southern Rhodesia and was formerly Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He became an expert on medical law and bioethics and served on related British and international committees. He has since become known as a fiction writer, with sales in English exceeding 40 million by 2010 and translations into 46 languages. He is known as the creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. The \"McCall\" derives from his great-great-grandmother Bethea McCall, who married James Smith at Glencairn, Dumfries-shire, in 1833."
tagline: "British writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AlexanderMcCallSmith.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-08-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.127132
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "McCallSmith"
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    handle:    "alexandermccallsmith"
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    handle:    "nm1676691"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.alexandermccallsmith.co.uk"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump