# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amy-knight
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:57:01.691Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/amy-knight"
name: "Amy Knight"
slug: "amy-knight"
description: "Amy W. Knight is an American historian of the Soviet Union and Russia. She has been described by The New York Times as \"the West's foremost scholar\" of the KGB."
tagline: "American historian"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-07-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.4
  momentum:             1.052631578947368
  historical:           7.685782666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://amyknight.org"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Amy_Knight"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A_%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "إيمي ونايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%89_%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "ايمى ونايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Knight"
    title: "Amy Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Knight"
    title: "Amy Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Knight"
    title: "Amy Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Knight"
    title: "Amy Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Knight"
    title: "Amy Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%94%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98_%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90%E1%83%98%E1%83%97%E1%83%98"
    title: "ემი ნაითი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2171270"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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