# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-lyon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:01:03.236Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-lyon"
name: "David Lyon"
slug: "david-lyon"
description: "David Lyon is a sociologist who directed the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He previously held a Queen’s Research Chair position and appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Faculty of Law at Queen's University."
tagline: "British sociologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Lyon_2015-03-24_Erasmus_University-cropped.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1948-12-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.550073333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "David Lyon"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lyon"
    title: "David Lyon"
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    title: "David Lyon (sociologist)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lyon_(soci%C3%B3logo)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump