# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/douglas-q-adams
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:24:48.547Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/douglas-q-adams"
name: "Douglas Q. Adams"
slug: "douglas-q-adams"
description: "Douglas Quentin Adams is an American linguist, professor of English at the University of Idaho and an Indo-European comparativist. He studied at the University of Chicago, earning PhD in 1972. Adams is an expert on Tocharian and a contributor on this subject to the Encyclopædia Britannica."
tagline: "American professor of English"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.741001333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دوغلاس كوينتين آدامز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Quentin_Adams"
    title: "Douglas Quentin Adams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Quentin_Adams"
    title: "Douglas Quentin Adams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Q._Adams"
    title: "Douglas Q. Adams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "داگلاس کیو آدامز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Q._Adams"
    title: "Douglas Q. Adams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Q._Adams"
    title: "Douglas Q. Adams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%9A%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Адамс, Дуглас Квентин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Q._Adams"
    title: "Douglas Q. Adams"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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