# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-lyons
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:31:23.077Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-lyons"
name: "John Lyons"
slug: "john-lyons"
description: "Sir John Lyons FBA was a British linguist, working on semantics."
tagline: "English linguist (1932-2020)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/Sir_John_Lyons_%281932%E2%80%932020%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-05-23"
deathDate: "2020-03-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.34
  momentum:             7.297297297297298
  historical:           14.214544
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "جون ليونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "جون ليونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "জন লায়ন্স (ভাষাবিজ্ঞানী)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lyons_(lingvista)"
    title: "John Lyons (lingvista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lyons_(Sprachwissenschaftler)"
    title: "John Lyons (Sprachwissenschaftler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lyons_(linguist)"
    title: "John Lyons (linguist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lyons"
    title: "John Lyons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B2"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lyons_(linguiste)"
    title: "John Lyons (linguiste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ジョン・ライアンズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lyons_(taalkundige)"
    title: "John Lyons (taalkundige)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ਜੌਹਨ ਲਾੲਿਨਜ਼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lyons_(j%C4%99zykoznawca)"
    title: "John Lyons (językoznawca)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lyons"
    title: "John Lyons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lyons_(linguist)"
    title: "John Lyons (linguist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B7_(%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%86%D1%8C)"
    title: "Джон Лайонз (мовознавець)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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