# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-worsley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:45:03.397Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-worsley"
name: "Peter Worsley"
slug: "peter-worsley"
description: "Peter Maurice Worsley was a noted British sociologist and social anthropologist. He was a major figure in both anthropology and sociology, and is noted for introducing the term Third World into English. He not only made theoretical and ethnographic contributions, but also was regarded as a key founding member of the New Left."
tagline: "British sociologist (1924–2013)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1924-05-06"
deathDate: "2013-03-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.89
  momentum:             19.13953488372093
  historical:           7.410944000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Peter Worsley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "پيتير ورسلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Worsley"
    title: "Peter Worsley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Worsley"
    title: "Peter Worsley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Worsley"
    title: "Peter Worsley"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "پیتر ورسلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Worsley"
    title: "Peter Worsley"
    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%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4"
    title: "ピーター・ワースレイ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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