# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-barber
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:04:01.072Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-barber"
name: "Richard Barber"
slug: "richard-barber"
description: "Richard William Barber is a British historian who has published several books about medieval history and literature. His book The Knight and Chivalry, about the interplay between history and literature, won the Somerset Maugham Award, a British literary prize, in 1971. A similarly-themed 2004 book, The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief, was widely praised in the UK press, and received major reviews in The New York Times and The New Republic."
tagline: "British historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Barber.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-10-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.00918
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "رچرڈ باربر"
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    title: "Рычард Барбер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Barber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Barber"
    title: "Richard Barber"
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    title: "Richard Barber"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump