# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-lynn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:28:13.136Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-lynn"
name: "Martin Lynn"
slug: "martin-lynn"
description: "Martin Lynn was a British and Nigerian historian and academic, specialising in African History. Having taught at the University of Ilorin, he moved to Queen's University Belfast in 1980. Here Lynn taught British and Imperial history and, later on African and Chinese history. His particular academic expertise was in the economic history of West Africa. In 2002 he was appointed Professor of African History. He was the first person to hold a professorship in African history in Ireland."
tagline: "British historian"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931-08-31"
deathDate: "2005-04-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.81
  momentum:             18.69565217391304
  historical:           6.402268
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  203
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Martin Lynn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%AE)"
    title: "مارتن لين (مؤرخ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارتن لين (مؤرخ من نايجيريا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "মার্টিন লিন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Lynn"
    title: "Martin Lynn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://guw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Lynn"
    title: "Martin Lynn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Lynn"
    title: "Martin Lynn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Lynn"
    title: "Martin Lynn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6776097"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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