# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dan-sleigh
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:47:20.490Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dan-sleigh"
name: "Dan Sleigh"
slug: "dan-sleigh"
description: "Daniel (Dan) Sleigh was a South African historian, writer and conservationist. Sleigh is widely known for his writing and publications dealing with the history of the Cape in South Africa, which are in Afrikaans."
tagline: "South African writer (1938–2023)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-11-03"
deathDate: "2023-07-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.56
  momentum:             3.529411764705882
  historical:           5.269870666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Sleigh"
    title: "Dan Sleigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Sleigh"
    title: "Dan Sleigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "دان سلاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Sleigh"
    title: "Dan Sleigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Sleigh"
    title: "Dan Sleigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Sleigh"
    title: "Dan Sleigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1253072"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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