# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-rayfield
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:24:15.643Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-rayfield"
name: "Donald Rayfield"
slug: "donald-rayfield"
description: "Patrick Donald Rayfield OBE is an English academic and Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London. He is an author of books about Russian and Georgian literature, history of Georgia, and about Joseph Stalin and his secret police. He is also a series editor for books about Russian writers and intelligentsia. He has translated Georgian, Russian and Uzbek poets and prose writers."
tagline: "British academic and translator (born 1942)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Donald_Rayfield_01.jpg?width=1200"
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country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1942-02-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           14.037044
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump