# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-boyce
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:57:49.988Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-boyce"
name: "Mary Boyce"
slug: "mary-boyce"
description: "Nora Elisabeth Mary Boyce was a British scholar of Iranian languages and an authority on Zoroastrianism. She was Professor of Iranian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London. The Royal Asiatic Society's annual Boyce Prize for outstanding contributions to the study of religion is named after her."
tagline: "British scholar in Iranian Studies (1920–2006)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1920-08-02"
deathDate: "2006-04-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.7
  momentum:             0.5178571428571429
  historical:           14.90907466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Mary Boyce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mary Boyce"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Boyce"
    title: "Mary Boyce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mary Boyce"
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    title: "Mary Boyce"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump