# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gunther-kress
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:06:31.201Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gunther-kress"
name: "Gunther Kress"
slug: "gunther-kress"
description: "Gunther Rolf Kress MBE was a linguist and semiotician. Best known for his work with Bob Hodge, he is considered one of the leading theorists in critical discourse analysis, social semiotics and multimodality, particularly in relation to their educational implications. Kress has been described as \"one of the leading academics of the early 21st century\"."
tagline: "British academic (1940-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/GuntherKress2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-03-13"
deathDate: "2019-06-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.68
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.214652
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Gunther Kress"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gunther Kress"
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    title: "Gunther Kress"
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    title: "گونتر کرس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gunther Kress"
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    title: "Gunther Kress"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunther_Kress"
    title: "Gunther Kress"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump