# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-shand
# Generated: 2026-08-31T22:47:49.741Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-shand"
name: "Mark Shand"
slug: "mark-shand"
description: "Mark Roland Shand was an English travel writer and conservationist. He was the brother of Queen Camilla. Shand wrote four travel books, and as a BBC conservationist appeared in documentaries related to his journeys, most of which centred on the survival of elephants. His book Travels on My Elephant became a bestseller and won the Travel Writer of the Year Award at the British Book Awards in 1992. He was the chairman of Elephant Family, a wildlife foundation, which he co-founded in 2002."
tagline: "British travel writer, conservationist (1951-2014)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1951-06-28"
deathDate: "2014-04-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.026326666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2188489/"
    handle:    "nm2188489"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A6%AC%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E5%B0%9A%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "馬克·尚德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA"
    title: "Шанд, Марк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shand"
    title: "Mark Shand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "مارك شاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "مارك شاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shand"
    title: "Mark Shand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shand"
    title: "Mark Shand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89"
    title: "マーク・シャンド"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15488831"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4187801"
    title: "Mark Shandley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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