# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-rex
# Generated: 2026-09-07T17:11:06.685Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-rex"
name: "John Rex"
slug: "john-rex"
description: "John Rex was a South African-born British sociologist. Born in Port Elizabeth, he was radicalised after working for the South African Bantu Affairs Administration and moved to Britain. He was a lecturer at the universities of Leeds (1949–62), Birmingham (1962–64), Durham (1964–70), Warwick, Aston (1979–84), Toronto (1974–75), Cape Town (1991) and New York (1996). He was also a member of the UNESCO International Experts' Committee on Racism and Race Prejudice (1967) and president of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Racial and Ethnic Minorities (1974–82)."
tagline: "British sociologist (1925-2011)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1925-03-05"
deathDate: "2011-12-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.472426666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rex"
    title: "John Rex"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3_(%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B0_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%8A)"
    title: "جون ريكس (أستاذ جامعي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85_%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A7)"
    title: "جون ريكس (عالم اجتماع من جنوب افريقيا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rex"
    title: "John Rex"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rex"
    title: "John Rex"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rex"
    title: "John Rex"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201489"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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