# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ali-ansari
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:15:30.583Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ali-ansari"
name: "Ali Ansari"
slug: "ali-ansari"
description: "Ali Massoud Ansari is a Professor in Modern History with reference to the Middle East at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he is also the founding director of the Institute for Iranian Studies."
tagline: "Iranian professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Associate_Fellow_Ali_Ansari_speaking_to_Fox_News_about_Iran_(7131591573)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1967-11-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.03
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.846332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "علي أنصاري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "على انصارى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "علی مسعود انصاری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "আলী আনসারি"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_M._Ansari"
    title: "Ali M. Ansari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%84%DB%8C_%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C"
    title: "علی مسعود انصاری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_M._Ansari"
    title: "Ali M. Ansari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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