# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-leslie-starkey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:16:40.541Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-leslie-starkey"
name: "James Leslie Starkey"
slug: "james-leslie-starkey"
description: "James Leslie Starkey was a noted British archaeologist of the ancient Near East and Palestine in the period before the Second World War. He was the chief excavator of the first archaeological expedition to Lachish from 1932 to his death."
tagline: "British archaeologist (1895-1938)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Starkey%2C_James_Leslie%2C_Zionsfriedhof_Jerusalem.jpg/330px-Starkey%2C_James_Leslie%2C_Zionsfriedhof_Jerusalem.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: "1895-01-03"
deathDate: "1938-01-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.31
  momentum:             1.176470588235294
  historical:           5.673830666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Leslie_Starkey"
    title: "James Leslie Starkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "چيمس ليسلى ستاركى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Leslie_Starkey"
    title: "James Leslie Starkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Leslie_Starkey"
    title: "James Leslie Starkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Leslie_Starkey"
    title: "James Leslie Starkey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%A1_%D7%9C%D7%A1%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%A7%D7%99"
    title: "ג'יימס לסלי סטרקי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q465101"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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