# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gregory-smits
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:22:44.277Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gregory-smits"
name: "Gregory Smits"
slug: "gregory-smits"
description: "Gregory James Smits is an American historian, academic, writer and Japanologist. He is a professor of Japanese history at Pennsylvania State University. Many of Smits' works focus on Ryukyuan history."
tagline: "Historian from the United States"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1960"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.08
  momentum:             2.307692307692307
  historical:           5.269006666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Smits"
    title: "Gregory Smits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%BA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "غريغوري سميتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "جريجورى سميتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Smits"
    title: "Gregory Smits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Smits"
    title: "Gregory Smits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B4%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%83%84"
    title: "グレゴリー・スミッツ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8269672"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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