# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-g-macdonald
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:29:05.801Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-g-macdonald"
name: "Ian G. Macdonald"
slug: "ian-g-macdonald"
description: "Ian Grant Macdonald was a British mathematician known for his contributions to symmetric functions, special functions, Lie algebra theory and other aspects of algebra, algebraic combinatorics, and combinatorics."
tagline: "British mathematician (1928–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ian_Macdonald_(1977).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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birthDate: "1928-10-11"
deathDate: "2023-08-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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ranks:
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    title: "Ian G. Macdonald"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump