# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-vovin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:48:57.519Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-vovin"
name: "Alexander Vovin"
slug: "alexander-vovin"
description: "Alexander Vladimirovich Vovin was a Soviet-born Russian-American linguist and philologist, and director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris, France. He was known for his research on East Asian languages."
tagline: "Russian-American linguist and philologist (1961–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vovin.gif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1961-01-27"
deathDate: "2022-04-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.219822109275731
  historical:           10.73024266666667
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "亚历山大·沃文"
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    title: "الكسندر فوفين"
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    title: "Alexander Vovin"
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    title: "Alexander Vovin"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Vovin"
    title: "Alexander Vovin"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Vovin"
    title: "Aleksandr Vovin"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Vovin"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Wowin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump