# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/geoffrey-kirk
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:00:44.360Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/geoffrey-kirk"
name: "Geoffrey Kirk"
slug: "geoffrey-kirk"
description: "Geoffrey Stephen Kirk, was a British classicist who served as the 35th Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge. He published widely on pre-Socratic philosophy and the work of the Greek poet Homer, culminating in a six-volume philological commentary on the Iliad published between 1985 and 1993."
tagline: "British classical scholar (1921–2003)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/G._S._Kirk.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1921-12-03"
deathDate: "2003-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Geoffrey Kirk"
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    title: "Geoffrey S. Kirk"
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    title: "Geoffrey Kirk"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump