# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/denis-sinor
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:40:05.053Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/denis-sinor"
name: "Denis Sinor"
slug: "denis-sinor"
description: "Denis Sinor was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Central Asian Studies at the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University and a tenured lecturer at Cambridge University between 1948 and 1962, and was one of the world's leading scholars for the history of Central Asia. Under his directorship, the Central Asian Studies at Indiana University became one of the world's foremost centers for Central Asian history, languages and linguistics."
tagline: "American academic (1916–2011)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1916-04-17"
deathDate: "2011-01-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.32
  momentum:             4.918032786885245
  historical:           9.210908
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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%86%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "دينيس سينور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Sinor"
    title: "Denis Sinor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Sinor"
    title: "Denis Sinor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9nes_Sinor"
    title: "Dénes Sinor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinor_D%C3%A9nes"
    title: "Sinor Dénes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Сайнор, Денис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Sinor"
    title: "Denis Sinor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Синор, Денис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Sinor"
    title: "Denis Sinor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "丹尼斯·塞诺"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q458008"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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