# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/calvert-watkins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:26:29.881Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/calvert-watkins"
name: "Calvert Watkins"
slug: "calvert-watkins"
description: "Calvert Ward Watkins was an American linguist and philologist, known for his book How to Kill a Dragon. He was a professor of linguistics and the classics at Harvard University and after retirement went to serve as professor-in-residence at UCLA."
tagline: "American linguist and philologist (1933-2013)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Calvert_Watkins.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1933-03-13"
deathDate: "2013-03-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           11.618
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump