# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-woodman-cleaves
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:44:19.300Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-woodman-cleaves"
name: "Francis Woodman Cleaves"
slug: "francis-woodman-cleaves"
description: "Francis Woodman Cleaves was an American sinologist, linguist, and historian who taught at Harvard University, and was the founder of Sino-Mongolian studies in America. He is well known for his translation of The Secret History of the Mongols."
tagline: "American orientalist historian. mongolist and sinologist (1911-1995)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/Woodman_Cleaves.JPG"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1911-07-14"
deathDate: "1995-12-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.339417333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "فرانسيس وودمان كليفز (مؤرخ من امريكا)"
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    title: "Francis Woodman Cleaves"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump