# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anthony-sampson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:52:03.676Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anthony-sampson"
name: "Anthony Sampson"
slug: "anthony-sampson"
description: "Anthony Terrell Seward Sampson was a British writer and journalist. His most notable and successful book was Anatomy of Britain, which was published in 1962 and was followed by five more \"Anatomies\", updating the original book under various titles. He was the grandson of the linguist John Sampson, of whom he wrote a biography, The Scholar Gypsy: The Quest For A Family Secret (1997). He also gave Nelson Mandela advice on Mandela's famous 1964 defence speech at the trial which led to his conviction for life."
tagline: "British writer and journalist (1926–2004)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1926-08-03"
deathDate: "2004-12-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.76
  momentum:             0.5492424242424242
  historical:           10.68671866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anthony_Sampson"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AB%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%BE%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "انثونى سامپسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Sampson"
    title: "Anthony Sampson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Sampson"
    title: "Anthony Sampson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Sampson"
    title: "Anthony Sampson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "آنتونی سمسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Sampson"
    title: "Anthony Sampson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Sampson"
    title: "Anthony Sampson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Sampson"
    title: "Anthony Sampson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%97%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3"
    title: "アンソニー・サンプソン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AD%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8"
    title: "Сэмпсон, Энтони"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Sampson"
    title: "Anthony Sampson"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q573976"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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