# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laurence-oliphant
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:01:36.848Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laurence-oliphant"
name: "Laurence Oliphant"
slug: "laurence-oliphant"
description: "Laurence Oliphant, a Member of Parliament, was a South African-born British author, traveller, diplomat, British intelligence agent, Christian mystic, and Christian Zionist. His best known book in his lifetime was a satirical novel, Piccadilly (1870). More heed has gone since to his plan for Jewish farming communities in the Holy Land, The Land of Gilead. Oliphant was a UK Member of Parliament for Stirling Burghs."
tagline: "British author, traveller, diplomat and Christian mystic (1829-1888)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LaurenceOliphant.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1829-08-03"
deathDate: "1888-12-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.17
  momentum:             0.9174311926605504
  historical:           14.71800266666667
  currentAttention:     5.096839959225281
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Laurence Oliphant"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Oliphant_(author)"
    title: "Laurence Oliphant (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Laurence Oliphant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "로런스 올리펀트"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Oliphant_(talasulat)"
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    title: "Laurence Oliphant"
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    title: "Laurence Oliphant"
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    title: "柯獵焚"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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