# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/geoff-eley
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:35:13.429Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/geoff-eley"
name: "Geoff Eley"
slug: "geoff-eley"
description: "Geoffrey Howard \"Geoff\" Eley is a British-born historian of Germany. He studied history at Balliol College, Oxford, and received his PhD from the University of Sussex in 1974. He has taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in the Department of History since 1979 and the Department of German Studies since 1997. He now serves as the Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History at Michigan."
tagline: "British historian"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949-05-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.51
  momentum:             3.428571428571429
  historical:           6.145681333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoff-eley-ba027321/"
    handle:    "geoff-eley-ba027321"
sources:
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Eley"
    title: "Geoff Eley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "جيف ايلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Eley"
    title: "Geoff Eley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Eley"
    title: "Geoff Eley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Eley"
    title: "Geoff Eley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Eley"
    title: "Geoff Eley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A0%9C%ED%94%84_%EC%9D%BC%EB%A6%AC"
    title: "제프 일리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1036755"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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