# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-saville
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:29:03.477Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-saville"
name: "John Saville"
slug: "john-saville"
description: "John Saville was a Greek-British Marxist historian, long associated with the University of Hull. He was an influential writer on British labour history in the second half of the twentieth century, and also known for his multi-volume work, the Dictionary of Labour Biography, edited in collaboration with others."
tagline: "British historian (1916–2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hull_University_Economics_Lecturer_John_Saville.gif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1916-04-02"
deathDate: "2009-06-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.9929078014184398
  historical:           7.01674
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "John Saville"
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    title: "John Saville"
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    title: "John Saville"
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    title: "Савилль, Джон"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump