# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/r-austin-freeman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:24:54.346Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/r-austin-freeman"
name: "R. Austin Freeman"
slug: "r-austin-freeman"
description: "Dr. Richard Austin Freeman was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He invented the inverted detective story. This invention has been described as Freeman's most notable contribution to detective fiction. Freeman used some of his early experiences as a colonial surgeon in his novels. Many of the Dr. Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but sometimes arcane, points of scientific knowledge, from areas such as tropical medicine, metallurgy and toxicology."
tagline: "British writer (1862-1943)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1862-04-11"
deathDate: "1943-09-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.19
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.859292
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm2825164"
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    title: "Discogs"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Austin_Freeman"
    title: "Richard Austin Freeman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "R. Austin Freeman"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump