# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anson-rainey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:12:28.932Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anson-rainey"
name: "Anson Rainey"
slug: "anson-rainey"
description: "Anson Frank Rainey was professor emeritus of ancient Near Eastern cultures and Semitic linguistics at Tel Aviv University. He is known in particular for contributions to the study of the Amarna tablets, the noted administrative letters from the period of Pharaoh Akhenaten's rule during the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. He authored and edited books and articles on the cultures, languages and geography of the Biblical lands."
tagline: "American historian (1930–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anson_Rainey.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-01-11"
deathDate: "2011-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.9090909090909092
  historical:           7.673146666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Anson Rainey"
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    title: "انسون راينى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Anson Rainey"
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    title: "Anson Frank Rainey"
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    title: "Anson Rainey"
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    title: "آنسون رینی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anson_Rainey"
    title: "Anson Rainey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%99"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "آنسن رینی"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump