# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ban-gu
# Generated: 2026-09-02T23:27:46.293Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ban-gu"
name: "Ban Gu"
slug: "ban-gu"
description: "Ban Gu was a Chinese historian, poet, and politician best known for his part in compiling the Book of Han, the second of China's 24 dynastic histories. He also wrote a number of fu, a major literary form, part prose and part poetry, which is particularly associated with the Han era. A number of Ban's fu were collected by Xiao Tong in the Wen Xuan."
tagline: "Chinese historian, politician and poet (AD 32–92)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ban_Gu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "32"
deathDate: "92"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.84421333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Pan Ku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بان جو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Бан Гу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ban Gu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بانگو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pan Ku"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%93%D1%83"
    title: "Бань Гу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Gu"
    title: "Ban Gu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Gu"
    title: "Ban Gu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Gu"
    title: "Ban Gu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%AF%D9%88"
    title: "بان گو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Gu"
    title: "Ban Gu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Gu"
    title: "Ban Gu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Gu"
    title: "Ban Gu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8F%AD%E5%9B%BA"
    title: "班固"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Бань Гу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "반고 (후한)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Бань Гу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Gu"
    title: "Ban Gu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Gu"
    title: "Ban Gu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ban Gu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Gu"
    title: "Ban Gu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%93%D1%83"
    title: "Бань Гу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Gu"
    title: "Ban Gu"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Gu"
    title: "Ban Gu"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q439681"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump