# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oliver-rackham
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:23:40.448Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oliver-rackham"
name: "Oliver Rackham"
slug: "oliver-rackham"
description: "Oliver Rackham was an academic at the University of Cambridge who studied the ecology, management and development of the British countryside, especially trees, woodlands and wood pasture. His books included Ancient Woodland (1980) and The History of the Countryside (1986)."
tagline: "British botanist and landscape historian (1939-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Oliver_Rackham.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939-10-17"
deathDate: "2015-02-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.26
  momentum:             2.470588235294117
  historical:           5.481318666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Oliver Rackham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "أوليفر راكهام"
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    title: "اوليفر راخام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Rackham"
    title: "Oliver Rackham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Rackham"
    title: "Oliver Rackham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Rackham"
    title: "Oliver Rackham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2888789"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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