# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joanne-patricia-sharp
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:26:07.679Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joanne-patricia-sharp"
name: "Joanne Patricia Sharp"
slug: "joanne-patricia-sharp"
description: "Joanne Patricia Sharp, is a Scottish geographer. She researches and writes on geopolitics and feminist geography. In April 2022 she became Geographer Royal for Scotland, the first woman to hold the title which was created in 1682. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and has been awarded the President's Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society."
tagline: "Scottish geographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jo_Sharp.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1969-11-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           2.472072
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  76
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/ProfJoSharp"
    handle:    "ProfJoSharp"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk:443/portal/en/persons/joanne-patricia-sharp(9b3babaf-a612-41b0-8a51-6820a39a3df9).html"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Sharp"
    title: "Jo Sharp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Sharp"
    title: "Jo Sharp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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