# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ray-monk
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:50:51.109Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ray-monk"
name: "Ray Monk"
slug: "ray-monk"
description: "Ray Monk is a British biographer who is renowned for his biographies of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, and J. Robert Oppenheimer. He is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Southampton, where he taught in various capacities from 1992 to 2018."
tagline: "British philosopher"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1957-02-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.958641333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11657420/"
    handle:    "nm11657420"
sources:
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    title: "雷·蒙克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "راي مونك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ray Monk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ری مانک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Monk"
    title: "Ray Monk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Monk"
    title: "Ray Monk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Monk"
    title: "Ray Monk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Monk"
    title: "Ray Monk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رے مانک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Ray Monk"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump