# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-faithfull-fleet
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:37:13.688Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-faithfull-fleet"
name: "John Faithfull Fleet"
slug: "john-faithfull-fleet"
description: "John Faithfull Fleet C.I.E was an English civil servant with the Indian Civil Service and became known as a historian, epigraphist and linguist. His research in Indian epigraphy and history, conducted in India over a thirty-year period, is published in books including Pali, Sanskrit and Old Canarese Inscriptions, The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of The Bombay Presidency from the earliest historical times to the Musalman Conquest, and The Inscriptions of The Early Gupta Kings and their Successors. He was a regular contributor to works journals covering Indian history. His published well-regarded works on inscriptions in the Sanskrit, Pali and Kannada languages and on the history of dynasties such as the Guptas, Kadambas, Aulikaras, Chalukyas, Rashtrakutas and Seunas."
tagline: "British historian, epigraphist and linguist (1847–1917)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/db/John-faithful_fleet_cropped_low_res.tif/lossy-page1-250px-John-faithful_fleet_cropped_low_res.tif.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1847"
deathDate: "1917-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.19
  momentum:             0.784313725490196
  historical:           7.00594
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "جون فيثفول فليت"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump