# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/basil-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:36:23.165Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/basil-brown"
name: "Basil Brown"
slug: "basil-brown"
description: "Basil John Wait Brown was an English archaeologist and astronomer. Self-taught, he discovered and excavated a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in 1939, which has come to be called \"one of the most important archaeological discoveries of all time\". Although Brown was described as an amateur archaeologist, his career as a paid excavation employee for a provincial museum spanned more than thirty years."
tagline: "British archaeologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Basil_Brown.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1888-01-22"
deathDate: "1977-03-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.05
  momentum:             6.112795633717404
  historical:           8.340158666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "巴兹尔·布朗"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "باسيل برون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Brown"
    title: "Basil Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Brown"
    title: "Basil Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Brown"
    title: "Basil Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Brown"
    title: "Basil Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Brown"
    title: "Basil Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Brown"
    title: "Basil Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD%2C_%D0%91%D1%8D%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BB"
    title: "Браун, Бэзил"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4867128"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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