# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-robinson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:01:20.978Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-robinson"
name: "Francis Robinson"
slug: "francis-robinson"
description: "Francis Christopher Rowland Robinson CBE, DL, FRAS is a British historian and academic who specialises in the history of South Asia and Islam. Since 1990, he has been Professor of History of South Asia at the University of London. He has twice been president of the Royal Asiatic Society: from 1997 to 2000, and from 2003 to 2006."
tagline: "British academic"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-11-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.33
  momentum:             14.78014184397163
  historical:           5.472138666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Francis Robinson (Historiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "فرنسيس روبنسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "فرنسيس روبنسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%B3_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "فرانسس رابنسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Robinson"
    title: "Francis Robinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "فرانسیس رابینسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5482322"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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