# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-belich
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:34:37.026Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-belich"
name: "James Belich"
slug: "james-belich"
description: "James Christopher Belich is a New Zealand historian, known for his work on the New Zealand Wars and on New Zealand history more generally. One of his major works on the 19th-century clash between Māori and Pākehā, the revisionist study The New Zealand Wars (1986), was also published in an American edition and adapted into a television series and DVD."
tagline: "New Zealand historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Belich_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.83
  momentum:             0.3537414965986395
  historical:           5.294062666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0067862/"
    handle:    "nm0067862"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/faculty/staff/profile/belich/index.html"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Belich_(historian)"
    title: "James Belich (historian)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B4"
    title: "جيمس بيليش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Belich_(Historiker)"
    title: "James Belich (Historiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Belich"
    title: "James Belich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%8F%D0%B5%D1%98%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%87_(%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80)"
    title: "Џејмс Белич (историчар)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3160933"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5174066"
    title: "James Belich"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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