# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-gombrich
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:56:32.475Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-gombrich"
name: "Richard Gombrich"
slug: "richard-gombrich"
description: "Richard Francis Gombrich is a British Indologist and scholar of Sanskrit, Pāli, and Buddhist studies. He was the Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford from 1976 to 2004. He is currently Founder-President of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. He is a past president of the Pali Text Society (1994–2002) and general editor emeritus of the Clay Sanskrit Library."
tagline: "British Indologist (1937-)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-07-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           7.028404
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump