# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neil-macgregor
# Generated: 2026-09-01T06:38:59.696Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/neil-macgregor"
name: "Neil MacGregor"
slug: "neil-macgregor"
description: "Robert Neil MacGregor is a British art historian and former museum director. He was editor of the Burlington Magazine from 1981 to 1987, then Director of the National Gallery, London, from 1987 to 2002, Director of the British Museum from 2003 to 2015, and founding director of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin until 2018."
tagline: "British art historian (born 1946)"
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birthDate: "1946-06-16"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump