# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-lovesey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:51:44.845Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-lovesey"
name: "Peter Lovesey"
slug: "peter-lovesey"
description: "Peter Harmer Lovesey, also known by his pen name Peter Lear, was a British writer of historical and contemporary detective novels and short stories. His best-known series characters are Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian-era police detective based in London, and Peter Diamond, a modern-day police detective in Bath. He was also one of the world's leading track and field statisticians."
tagline: "British writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PeterLovesey.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-09-10"
deathDate: "2025-04-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.39122133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1024772/"
    handle:    "nm1024772"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://peterlovesey.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "بيتر لوفيسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Lovesey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lovesey"
    title: "Peter Lovesey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lovesey"
    title: "Peter Lovesey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lovesey"
    title: "Peter Lovesey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lovesey"
    title: "Peter Lovesey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lovesey"
    title: "Peter Lovesey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lovesey"
    title: "Peter Lovesey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B4%E3%82%BC%E3%82%A4"
    title: "ピーター・ラヴゼイ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "피터 러브시"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lovesey"
    title: "Peter Lovesey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ловси, Питер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Lovesey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%96%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%96"
    title: "Пітер Ловсі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "彼得·拉佛西"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1350599"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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