# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-eric-s-thompson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:54:58.129Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-eric-s-thompson"
name: "J. Eric S. Thompson"
slug: "j-eric-s-thompson"
description: "Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson was a leading English Mesoamerican archaeologist, ethnohistorian, and epigrapher. While working in the United States, he dominated Maya studies and particularly the study of the Maya script until well into the 1960s."
tagline: "English Mesoamerican archaeologist (1898–1975)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6b/John_Eric_Sidney_Thompson_%28cropped%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1898-12-31"
deathDate: "1975-09-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.47
  momentum:             0.1690821256038647
  historical:           8.096978666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Томпсон, Джон Эрик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%87._%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A7%D8%B3._%D8%AB%D9%88%D9%85%D9%BE%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جيه. اريك اس. ثومپسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Thompson_(Arch%C3%A4ologe)"
    title: "Eric Thompson (Archäologe)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Eric_S._Thompson"
    title: "J. Eric S. Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Thompson"
    title: "Eric S. Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eric_Thompson"
    title: "John Eric Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eric_Sidney_Thompson"
    title: "John Eric Sidney Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%89%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3%E3%83%97%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ジョン・エリック・シドニー・トンプソン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eric_Sidney_Thompson"
    title: "John Eric Sidney Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q705504"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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