# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-ridpath
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:20:43.890Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-ridpath"
name: "Michael Ridpath"
slug: "michael-ridpath"
description: "Michael Ridpath is an English author of thrillers involving the world of high finance, as well as his Fire and Ice crime series set in Iceland, standalone novels and historical fiction. He was born in Devon in 1961 and grew up in Yorkshire. He was educated at Millfield School and Merton College, Oxford, and spent eight years working as a bond trader at an international bank in the City of London. His past employers include Saudi International Bank and Apax Partners."
tagline: "British writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1961-03-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.00954
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ridpath"
    title: "Michael Ridpath"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AB"
    title: "مايكل ريدپاث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D1%8A%D0%BB_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%82"
    title: "Майкъл Ридпат"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ridpath"
    title: "Michael Ridpath"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ridpath"
    title: "Michael Ridpath"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ridpath"
    title: "Michael Ridpath"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ridpath"
    title: "Michael Ridpath"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ridpath"
    title: "Michael Ridpath"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q373651"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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