# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/liam-mcilvanney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:30:11.762Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/liam-mcilvanney"
name: "Liam McIlvanney"
slug: "liam-mcilvanney"
description: "Liam McIlvanney is a Scottish-born crime fiction writer and academic at the University of Otago in Otago, New Zealand, and the inaugural holder of the Stuart Chair in Scottish studies at the university. He is the son of William McIlvanney. Notable students include author Majella Cullinane."
tagline: "Scottish–New Zealand writer and academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Professor_Liam_McIlvanney_2010_DSC_6445_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.21
  momentum:             15
  historical:           1.546833333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  54
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_McIlvanney"
    title: "Liam McIlvanney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64494944"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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