# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-cannadine
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:08:20.700Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-cannadine"
name: "David Cannadine"
slug: "david-cannadine"
description: "Sir David Nicholas Cannadine is a British author and historian who specialises in modern history, Britain and the history of business and philanthropy. He is currently the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, a visiting professor of history at Oxford University, and the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He was president of the British Academy between 2017 and 2021, the UK's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. He also serves as the chairman of the trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London and vice-chair of the editorial board of Past & Present."
tagline: "British historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Cannadine_(55055704440).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950-09-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.42
  momentum:             5.71740215432705
  historical:           9.85616
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ديفيد كانادين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Cannadine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cannadine"
    title: "David Cannadine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cannadine"
    title: "David Cannadine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cannadine"
    title: "David Cannadine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%8A%E3%83%80%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3"
    title: "デイヴィッド・キャナダイン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cannadine"
    title: "David Cannadine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4"
    title: "Кеннедайн, Дэвид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B4_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BD"
    title: "Девід Кеннедайн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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