# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elfyn-richards
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:11:48.910Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elfyn-richards"
name: "Elfyn Richards"
slug: "elfyn-richards"
description: "Professor Elfyn John Richards was a Welsh aeronautical engineer and acoustical engineer, the first professor of either of these subjects at University of Southampton, where he founded the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, and was the second Vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University of Technology."
tagline: "British aerospace engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elfyn_Richards_(2010).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1914-12-28"
deathDate: "1995-09-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.61
  momentum:             11.09517601043025
  historical:           5.469186666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfyn_John_Richards"
    title: "Elfyn John Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B2"
    title: "إلفين ريتشاردز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B2"
    title: "الفين ريتشاردز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D1%81%2C_%D0%AD%D0%BB%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Ричардс, Элфин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfyn_Richards"
    title: "Elfyn Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfyn_Richards"
    title: "Elfyn Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5359949"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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