# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bryan-sykes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:08:24.665Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bryan-sykes"
name: "Bryan Sykes"
slug: "bryan-sykes"
description: "Bryan Clifford Sykes was a British geneticist, university professor, popular-science writer, and genetic genealogy company executive. He received a fellowship at Wolfson College and a personal chair, later emeritus professorship, in human genetics at the University of Oxford."
tagline: "British geneticist and science writer (1947–2020)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1947-09-09"
deathDate: "2020-12-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.38628933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بريان سايكس"
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    title: "Bryan Sykes"
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    title: "Bryan Sykes"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Sykes"
    title: "Bryan Sykes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bryan Sykes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bryan Sykes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bryan Sykes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bryan Sykes"
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    title: "Bryan Sykes"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bryan Sykes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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