# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-boyd
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:32:50.519Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-boyd"
name: "Brian Boyd"
slug: "brian-boyd"
description: "Brian David Boyd is a professor of literature known primarily as an expert on the life and works of author Vladimir Nabokov and on literature and evolution. He is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand."
tagline: "New Zealand scholar of English, literary critic and university teacher (born 1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brian_Boyd_November_2020.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-07-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.020808
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-boyd-80963a2b/"
    handle:    "brian-boyd-80963a2b"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "برايان بويد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Boyd"
    title: "Brian Boyd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Boyd"
    title: "Brian Boyd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Boyd"
    title: "Brian Boyd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%B4%2C_%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Бойд, Брайан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4090348"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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