# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lamin-sanneh
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:35:23.554Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lamin-sanneh"
name: "Lamin Sanneh"
slug: "lamin-sanneh"
description: "Lamin Sanneh was a Gambian American scholar who was the D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale Divinity School and Professor of History at Yale University."
tagline: "African American historian (1942-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lamin_Sanneh.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1942-05-24"
deathDate: "2019-01-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.74
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.481066666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Lamin Sanneh"
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    title: "لامين سانيه"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamin_Sanneh"
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  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%8B%89%E6%98%8E%C2%B7%E7%8F%8A%E6%8B%BF"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamin_Sanneh"
    title: "Lamin Sanneh"
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  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamin_Sanneh"
    title: "Lamin Sanneh"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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