# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-kingman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:26:40.174Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-kingman"
name: "John Kingman"
slug: "john-kingman"
description: "Sir John Frank Charles Kingman is a British mathematician. He served as N. M. Rothschild and Sons Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Isaac Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge from 2001 until 2006, when he was succeeded by David Wallace. He is known for developing the mathematics of the coalescent theory, a theoretical model of inheritance that is fundamental to modern population genetics."
tagline: "Statistician, Professor of Mathematical Science at the University of Cambridge"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939-08-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump