# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/denis-mcquail
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:02:42.969Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/denis-mcquail"
name: "Denis McQuail"
slug: "denis-mcquail"
description: "Denis McQuail was a British communication theorist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam, considered one of the most influential scholars in the field of mass communication studies."
tagline: "British communication theorist, academic and writer (1935-2017)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1935-04-12"
deathDate: "2017-06-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.674046666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Деніс Мак-Квейл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دينيس مكويل"
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    title: "Denis McQuail"
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    title: "Denis McQuail"
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    title: "Denis McQuail"
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    title: "Денис Меквејл"
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    title: "Denis McQuail"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump