# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-cobb
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:39:03.369Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-cobb"
name: "Richard Cobb"
slug: "richard-cobb"
description: "Richard Charles Cobb was a British historian and essayist, and professor at the University of Oxford. He was the author of numerous influential works about the history of France, particularly the French Revolution. Cobb meticulously researched the Revolutionary era from a ground-level view sometimes described as \"history from below\"."
tagline: "British historian (1917–1996)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/Cobb-Richard.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1917-05-20"
deathDate: "1996-01-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.91
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.085602666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8"
    title: "ريتشارد كوب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cobb"
    title: "Richard Cobb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cobb"
    title: "Richard Cobb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cobb"
    title: "Richard Cobb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cobb"
    title: "Richard Cobb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cobb"
    title: "Richard Cobb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%96"
    title: "リチャード・コブ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B1%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Кобб, Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q535878"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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