# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nicholas-sims-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:47:55.469Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nicholas-sims-williams"
name: "Nicholas Sims-Williams"
slug: "nicholas-sims-williams"
description: "Nicholas John Sims-Williams, FBA is a British professor of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where he is the Research Professor of Iranian and Central Asian Studies at the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Near and Middle East. Sims-Williams is a scholar who specializes in Central Asian history, particularly the study of Sogdian and Bactrian languages. He is also a member of the advisory council of the Iranian Studies journal."
tagline: "Iranologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nicholas_Sims-Williams._Berlin_Symposium_on_Kushans._Dec._2013.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1949-04-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             2.651039947177286
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump