# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-mortimer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:35:57.361Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-mortimer"
name: "Ian Mortimer"
slug: "ian-mortimer"
description: "Ian James Forrester Mortimer is a British historian and writer of historical fiction. He is best known for his book The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, which became a Sunday Times bestseller in paperback in 2010."
tagline: "British historian"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1967-09-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.73
  momentum:             3.298887122416534
  historical:           5.978873333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/IanJamesFM"
    handle:    "IanJamesFM"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ianmortimer.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ian_Mortimer"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B1_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%AE)"
    title: "يان مورتيمر (مؤرخ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "يان مورتيمر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Mortimer"
    title: "Ian Mortimer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Mortimer_(historian)"
    title: "Ian Mortimer (historian)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Mortimer"
    title: "Ian Mortimer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%98%D1%8D%D0%BD"
    title: "Мортимер, Иэн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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