# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-wickham
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:24:51.382Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-wickham"
name: "Chris Wickham"
slug: "chris-wickham"
description: "Christopher John Wickham is a British historian and academic. From 2005 to 2016, he was the Chichele Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; he is now emeritus professor. He had previously taught at the University of Birmingham from 1977, rising to be Professor of Early Medieval History from 1997 to 2005."
tagline: "British historian (born 1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chris_Wickham_UAL_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950-05-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.843003412969283
  historical:           10.51857866666667
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "克里斯·威克姆"
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    title: "Chris Wickham"
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    title: "Chris Wickham"
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    title: "Christopher Wickham"
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    title: "Chris Wickham"
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    title: "Chris Wickham"
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  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophorus_Wickham"
    title: "Christophorus Wickham"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump