# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-samuels
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:05:25.625Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-samuels"
name: "Michael Samuels"
slug: "michael-samuels"
description: "Michael Louis Samuels was a British Ashkenazi historical linguist, responsible for the Historical Thesaurus of English."
tagline: "British linguist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1920-09-14"
deathDate: "2010-11-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.23
  momentum:             6.250000000000002
  historical:           1.536789333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  49
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Samuels_(linguist)"
    title: "Michael Samuels (linguist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6834124"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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