# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-gilroy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:30:18.789Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-gilroy"
name: "Paul Gilroy"
slug: "paul-gilroy"
description: "Paul Gilroy is an English sociologist and cultural studies scholar who is the founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation (SPRC) at University College London (UCL). Gilroy was the 2019 winner of the €660,000 Holberg Prize, for \"his outstanding contributions to a number of academic fields, including cultural studies, critical race studies, sociology, history, anthropology and African-American studies\"."
tagline: "Scholar of the Black diaspora and culture"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PaulGilroy2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1956-02-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Paul Gilroy"
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    title: "Paul Gilroy"
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    title: "Гилрой, Пол"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump