# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/r-b-mccallum
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:07:56.961Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/r-b-mccallum"
name: "R. B. McCallum"
slug: "r-b-mccallum"
description: "Ronald Buchanan McCallum was a British historian. He was a fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, where he taught modern history and politics and was a member of J. R. R. Tolkien's Inklings. McCallum helped popularize the term psephology."
tagline: "British historian (1898-1973)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1898-08-28"
deathDate: "1973-05-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.6
  momentum:             6.666666666666666
  historical:           5.475054666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._B._McCallum"
    title: "R. B. McCallum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%89_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "آر بى ماكالوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Buchanan_McCallum"
    title: "Ronald Buchanan McCallum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B1_%D8%A8%DB%8C_%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%A9_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%85"
    title: "آر بی میک کیلم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._B._McCallum"
    title: "R. B. McCallum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._B._McCallum"
    title: "R. B. McCallum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q261820"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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