# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/niall-ferguson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:24:24.921Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/niall-ferguson"
name: "Niall Ferguson"
slug: "niall-ferguson"
description: "Sir Niall Campbell Ferguson is a British and American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, New York University, a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities, and a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. He was a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics for the 2023/2024 academic year and at Tsinghua University in China from 2019 to 2020."
tagline: "British historian"
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birthDate: "1964-04-18"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump