# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harold-wolpe
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:55:36.347Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harold-wolpe"
name: "Harold Wolpe"
slug: "harold-wolpe"
description: "Harold Wolpe was a South African lawyer, sociologist, political economist and anti-apartheid activist. He was arrested and put in prison in 1963 but escaped and spent 30 years in exile in the United Kingdom. He was a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Essex between 1972 and 1991 when he moved back to South Africa with his wife to direct the Education Policy Unit at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town. White rule ended three years later. He died of a sudden heart attack in 1996."
tagline: "South African political economist (1926–1996)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1926-01-14"
deathDate: "1996-01-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.476026666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wolpe"
    title: "Harold Wolpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%BE"
    title: "هارولد ولپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wolpe"
    title: "Harold Wolpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wolpe"
    title: "Harold Wolpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wolpe"
    title: "Harold Wolpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wolpe"
    title: "Harold Wolpe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5835924"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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