# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-myres
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:19:28.899Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-myres"
name: "John Myres"
slug: "john-myres"
description: "Sir John Linton Myres was a British archaeologist and academic, who conducted excavations in Cyprus during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Having been a fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford and then Christ Church, Oxford, he was briefly Gladstone Professor of Greek at the University of Liverpool (1907–1910). Having returned to the University of Oxford, he was the first Wykeham Professor of Ancient History from 1910 until 1939. During the First World War, he served with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in the Eastern Mediterranean."
tagline: "British archaeologist and academic (1869–1954)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Myres_passport_photo_1921.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1869-07-03"
deathDate: "1954-03-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.19
  momentum:             0.430622009569378
  historical:           5.674514666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Myres"
    title: "John Myres"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "جون ميريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Linton_Myres"
    title: "John Linton Myres"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_(%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3)"
    title: "Майерс, Джон (археолог)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Linton_Myres"
    title: "John Linton Myres"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Myres"
    title: "John Myres"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1700856"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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