# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-davies
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:25:09.712Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-davies"
name: "John Davies"
slug: "john-davies"
description: "John Davies was a Welsh historian, and a television and radio broadcaster. He attended university at Cardiff and Cambridge and taught Welsh at Aberystwyth. He wrote a number of books on Welsh history, including A History of Wales."
tagline: "Welsh historian and television and radio broadcaster (1938-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Davies_(historian).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-04-25"
deathDate: "2015-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.7
  momentum:             10
  historical:           9.526930666666669
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davies_(jenavan)"
    title: "John Davies (jenavan)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B2_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%AE)"
    title: "جون ديفيز (مؤرخ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B2_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%AE)"
    title: "جون ديفيز (مؤرخ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davies_(istorour)"
    title: "John Davies (istorour)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davies_(historik)"
    title: "John Davies (historik)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davies_(hanesydd)"
    title: "John Davies (hanesydd)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davies_(Historiker)"
    title: "John Davies (Historiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davies_(historian)"
    title: "John Davies (historian)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davies_(historien)"
    title: "John Davies (historien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davies_(stara%C3%AD)"
    title: "John Davies (staraí)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davies_(istoric)"
    title: "John Davies (istoric)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davies_(historian)"
    title: "John Davies (historian)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6228759"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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