# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-r-ballantyne
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:49:47.378Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-r-ballantyne"
name: "James R. Ballantyne"
slug: "james-r-ballantyne"
description: "James Robert Ballantyne  (1813–1864) was a Scottish Orientalist.\nFrom 1832 to 1845 he was a master at the Scottish Naval and Military Academy in Edinburgh, teaching Persian Hindi and Arabic to prospective officers of the East India Company.\nFrom 1845 he was superintendent of the Sanskrit College (Benares) in Varanasi. He went to England in 1861 where he was elected librarian of the India Office."
tagline: "British orientalist (1813-1864)"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1813-12-13"
deathDate: "1864-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.43
  momentum:             3.274336283185841
  historical:           5.672066666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Ballantyne"
    title: "James R. Ballantyne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%B8_%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B0._%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A8"
    title: "জেমস আর. ব্যালেনটাইন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Ballantyne"
    title: "James R. Ballantyne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Ballantyne"
    title: "James R. Ballantyne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Ballantyne"
    title: "James R. Ballantyne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Баллантайн, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q325902"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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