# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-sheffield
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:25:19.174Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-sheffield"
name: "Charles Sheffield"
slug: "charles-sheffield"
description: "Charles Sheffield, was an English-born mathematician, physicist, and science-fiction writer who served as a President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and of the American Astronautical Society."
tagline: "British mathematician, physicist and writer (1935–2002)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Writer_DrCharlesSheffield.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1935-06-25"
deathDate: "2002-11-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.1231802911534154
  historical:           14.89921066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump