# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-defrancis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:03:04.937Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-defrancis"
name: "John DeFrancis"
slug: "john-defrancis"
description: "John DeFrancis was an American linguist and sinologist. He was an author of Chinese language textbooks, a lexicographer of Chinese dictionaries, and a professor emeritus of Chinese studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa."
tagline: "American linguist (1911-2009)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1911-08-31"
deathDate: "2009-01-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.249212
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_DeFrancis"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "جون ديفرانسيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AB%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8"
    title: "জন ডিফ্রান্সিস"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeFrancis"
    title: "John DeFrancis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeFrancis"
    title: "John DeFrancis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeFrancis"
    title: "John DeFrancis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeFrancis"
    title: "John DeFrancis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ジョン・デフランシス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeFrancis"
    title: "John DeFrancis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeFrancis"
    title: "John DeFrancis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B4%84%E7%BF%B0%C2%B7%E5%BE%B7%E8%8C%83%E5%85%8B"
    title: "約翰·德范克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1392142"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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