# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-ranicki
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:30:22.877Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-ranicki"
name: "Andrew Ranicki"
slug: "andrew-ranicki"
description: "Andrew Alexander Ranicki was a British mathematician who worked on algebraic topology. He was a professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh."
tagline: "British mathematician and professor (1948–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Andrew_Ranicki.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948-12-30"
deathDate: "2018-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar"
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    title: "اندريو رانيكى"
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    title: "Andrew Ranicki"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Ranicki"
    title: "Andrew Ranicki"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump