# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patrick-french
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:56:18.038Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/patrick-french"
name: "Patrick French"
slug: "patrick-french"
description: "Patrick Rollo Basil French was a British writer, historian and academician. He was the author of several books including: Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer (1994), a biography of Francis Younghusband; The World Is What It Is (2008), an authorised biography of Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul that won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States; and India: A Portrait (2011)."
tagline: "British writer (1966–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Patrick_French_Plane.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1966-05-28"
deathDate: "2023-03-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.01
  momentum:             5.433070866141732
  historical:           9.820736
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/PatrickFrench"
    handle:    "PatrickFrench"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B8%95%E7%89%B9%E9%87%8C%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E5%BC%97%E4%BC%A6%E5%A5%87"
    title: "帕特里克·弗伦奇"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "باتريك فرينش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "باتريك فرينش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_French"
    title: "Patrick French"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_French"
    title: "Patrick French"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_French"
    title: "Patrick French"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Faransanci"
    title: "Patrick Faransanci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_French"
    title: "Patrick French"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_French"
    title: "Patrick French"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%87%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Френч, Патрик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_French"
    title: "Patrick French"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q522222"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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