# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-boardman
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:52:49.451Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-boardman"
name: "John Boardman"
slug: "john-boardman"
description: "Sir John Boardman, was a British classical archaeologist and art historian of ancient Greek art. Educated at Chigwell School in Essex and at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Boardman worked as assistant director of the British School at Athens between 1952 and 1955 before taking up a position as an assistant keeper at the Ashmolean Museum, part of the University of Oxford. He succeeded John Beazley as Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the university in 1978, remaining in post until his retirement in 1994."
tagline: "British classical archaeologist (1927-2024)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/34/John_Boardman_with_book.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1927-08-20"
deathDate: "2024-05-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.8102345415778253
  historical:           13.35158533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1822038/"
    handle:    "nm1822038"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump