# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-gott
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:34:48.862Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-gott"
name: "Richard Gott"
slug: "richard-gott"
description: "Richard Willoughby Gott was a British journalist and historian. A Latin America correspondent and features editor for the British newspaper The Guardian, he was known for his radical politics and a connection to Che Guevara. Gott resigned from The Guardian in 1994, after senior KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky accused him of having been a Soviet \"agent of influence\", an accusation that Gott rejected."
tagline: "British journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Gott_(8450927778)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1938-10-28"
deathDate: "2025-11-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.568793333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gott"
    title: "Richard Gott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%BA%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "ريتشارد غوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "ريتشارد جوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gott"
    title: "Richard Gott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gott"
    title: "Richard Gott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gott"
    title: "Richard Gott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gott"
    title: "Richard Gott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3430800"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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