# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenneth-dover
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:11:24.499Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenneth-dover"
name: "Kenneth Dover"
slug: "kenneth-dover"
description: "Sir Kenneth James Dover, was a distinguished British classical scholar and academic. He was president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from 1976 to 1986. In addition, he was president of the British Academy from 1978 to 1981, and chancellor of the University of St Andrews from 1981 to 2005. A scholar of Greek prose and Aristophanic comedy, he was also the author of Greek Homosexuality (1978), a key text on the subject."
tagline: "British hellenist and classical philologist (1920–2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kenneth_James_Dover.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1920-03-11"
deathDate: "2010-03-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           12.02754
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump