# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-mckay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:34:42.350Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-mckay"
name: "John McKay"
slug: "john-mckay"
description: "John K. S. McKay was a British-Canadian mathematician and academic who worked at Concordia University, known for his discovery of monstrous moonshine, his joint construction of some sporadic simple groups, for the McKay conjecture in representation theory, and for the McKay correspondence relating certain finite groups to Lie groups."
tagline: "Mathematician (1939–2022)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939-06-16"
deathDate: "2022-04-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump