# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-watson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:21:34.230Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-watson"
name: "Alexander Watson"
slug: "alexander-watson"
description: "Alexander James Watson is a British historian. He is the author of three books, which focus on East-Central Europe, Germany and Britain during World War I. His most recent book, The Fortress: The Great Siege of Przemysl was praised by The Times newspaper as a \"masterpiece\". His previous book, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918, won numerous awards. Currently Watson is Professor of History at Goldsmiths, University of London."
tagline: "British military historian"
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: "1979-07-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.44
  momentum:             2.375284882248671
  historical:           6.346977333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8199aa12-2353-436a-a791-e31778ee5652"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%AE_%D8%B9%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A)"
    title: "الكسندر واتسون (مؤرخ عسكري)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Watson_(Historiker)"
    title: "Alexander Watson (Historiker)"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Watson_(historian)"
    title: "Alexander Watson (historian)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Watson"
    title: "Alexander Watson"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Watson_(historiker)"
    title: "Alexander Watson (historiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Watson"
    title: "Alexander Watson"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20827566"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump