# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-guest
# Generated: 2026-09-01T08:39:01.320Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-guest"
name: "David Guest"
slug: "david-guest"
description: "David Guest was a British mathematician and Marxist philosopher who volunteered to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was killed in Spain in July 1938. He was the author of A Textbook of Dialectical Materialism, published posthumously in 1939."
tagline: "British mathematician and philosopher"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/David_Guest_meets_Harry_Pollitt_in_Spain.png/330px-David_Guest_meets_Harry_Pollitt_in_Spain.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1911"
deathDate: "1938"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.65
  momentum:             3.279678068410464
  historical:           6.157093333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Гест, Дэвид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Guest"
    title: "David Guest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Guest_(communist)"
    title: "David Guest (communist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Guest"
    title: "David Guest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Guest_(militant)"
    title: "David Guest (militant)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Guest"
    title: "David Guest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump