# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-c-wells
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:35:51.549Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/john-c-wells"
name: "John C. Wells"
slug: "john-c-wells"
description: "John Christopher Wells is a British phonetician and Esperantist. Wells is a professor emeritus at University College London, where until his retirement in 2006 he held the departmental chair in phonetics. He is known for his work on the Esperanto language and his invention of the standard lexical sets and the X-SAMPA encoding of the IPA."
tagline: "British phonetician and Esperanto teacher"
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country:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1939-03-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump