# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-iliffe
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:02:57.165Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-iliffe"
name: "John Iliffe"
slug: "john-iliffe"
description: "John Iliffe is a British historian, specialising in the history of Africa and especially Tanzania."
tagline: "British historian"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-05-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.72
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.274370666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Iliffe_(historian)"
    title: "John Iliffe (historian)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81"
    title: "جون ايليف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Iliffe"
    title: "John Iliffe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Iliffe"
    title: "John Iliffe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Iliffe"
    title: "John Iliffe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Iliffe_(masanin_tarih)"
    title: "John Iliffe (masanin tarih)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1700554"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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