# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-burford
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:45:42.673Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-burford"
name: "Barbara Burford"
slug: "barbara-burford"
description: "Barbara Yvonne Veronica Burford was a British medical researcher, civil servant and writer. She was born in Jamaica and moved to the United Kingdom at the age of 10. Burford attended Dalston County Grammar School and studied medicine at the University of London."
tagline: "Jamaican-born British writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-12-09"
deathDate: "2010-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.670518666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Burford"
    title: "Barbara Burford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "باربرا بيرفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "باربرا بيرفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Burford"
    title: "Barbara Burford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Burford"
    title: "Barbara Burford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Burford"
    title: "Barbara Burford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57317286"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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