# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/owen-lattimore
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:36:04.382Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/owen-lattimore"
name: "Owen Lattimore"
slug: "owen-lattimore"
description: "Owen Lattimore was an American Orientalist and writer. He was an influential scholar of China and Central Asia, especially Mongolia. Although he never earned a college degree, in the 1930s he was editor of Pacific Affairs, a journal published by the Institute of Pacific Relations, and taught at Johns Hopkins University from 1938 to 1963. He was director of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations from 1939 to 1953. During World War II, he was an advisor to Chiang Kai-shek and the American government and contributed extensively to the public debate on U.S. policy toward Asia. From 1963 to 1970, Lattimore was the first Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Leeds in England."
tagline: "American scholar of Central Asia (1900-1989)"
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gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1900-07-29"
deathDate: "1989-05-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump