# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lionel-giles
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:59:32.059Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lionel-giles"
name: "Lionel Giles"
slug: "lionel-giles"
description: "Lionel Giles CBE was a British sinologist, writer, and philosopher. Lionel Giles served as assistant curator at the British Museum and Keeper of the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books. He is most notable for his 1910 translations of The Art of War by Sun Tzu and The Analects of Confucius."
tagline: "British sinologist, writer and philosopher (1875–1958)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lgiles.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1875-12-29"
deathDate: "1958-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.28599866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lionel Giles"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Giles"
    title: "Lionel Giles"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Giles"
    title: "Lionel Giles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Giles"
    title: "Lionel Giles"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Giles"
    title: "Lionel Giles"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Giles"
    title: "Lionel Giles"
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  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonellus_Giles"
    title: "Leonellus Giles"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Giles"
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    title: "Lionel Giles"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump