# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/reo-fortune
# Generated: 2026-09-02T08:03:50.678Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/reo-fortune"
name: "Reo Fortune"
slug: "reo-fortune"
description: "Reo Franklin Fortune was a New Zealand-born social anthropologist. Originally trained as a psychologist, Fortune was a student of some of the major theorists of British and American social anthropology including Alfred Cort Haddon, Bronislaw Malinowski and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown. He lived an international life, holding various academic and government positions: in China, at Lingnan University from 1937 to 1939; in Toledo, Ohio, USA from 1940 to 1941; at the University of Toronto, from 1941 to 1943; in Burma, as government anthropologist, from 1946 to 1947; and finally, at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom from 1947 to 1971, as lecturer in social anthropology specialising in Melanesian language and culture."
tagline: "New Zealand anthropologist (1903–1979)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/57/Reo_Fortune.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1903-03-27"
deathDate: "1979-11-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.66
  momentum:             0.06858710562414266
  historical:           5.493090666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reo_Fortune"
    title: "Reo Fortune"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%86"
    title: "ريو فورتشن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reo_Franklin_Fortune"
    title: "Reo Franklin Fortune"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reo_Fortune"
    title: "Reo Fortune"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reo_Fortune"
    title: "Reo Fortune"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reo_Fortune"
    title: "Reo Fortune"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2144944"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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