# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/deborah-hyde
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:02:22.168Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/deborah-hyde"
name: "Deborah Hyde"
slug: "deborah-hyde"
description: "Deborah Hyde is a British sceptic, folklorist, cultural anthropologist, Ufologist, fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and editor-in-chief of The Skeptic. She writes and lectures extensively about superstition, cryptozoology, religion and belief in the paranormal, with special regard to the folklore, psychology and sociology behind these phenomena, and has been introduced as a \"vampire expert\". Hyde has also worked in the motion picture industry. She is a patron of Humanists UK."
tagline: "British anthropologist and editor"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1965"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "ديبورا هايد"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump