# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ivor-forbes-guest
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:15:41.627Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ivor-forbes-guest"
name: "Ivor Forbes Guest"
slug: "ivor-forbes-guest"
description: "Ivor Forbes Guest DUniv MA FRAD was a British historian and writer, best known for his study of ballet. He was chairman of the Royal Academy of Dance for twenty three years (1970–93) and has been a Vice-President since 1993 and Secretary then Trustee of the Radcliffe Trust. In 1997 he was made a Doctor of the University by the University of Surrey, its highest honorary doctorate."
tagline: "British historian (1920–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ivor_Guest.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1920-04-14"
deathDate: "2018-03-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.803744
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B6%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B3"
    title: "ضيف ايفور فوربس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Forbes_Guest"
    title: "Ivor Forbes Guest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Guest"
    title: "Ivor Guest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Guest"
    title: "Ivor Guest"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%2C_%D0%90%D0%B9%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80"
    title: "Гест, Айвор"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q257844"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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