# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-kagan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:05:27.643Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-kagan"
name: "Richard Kagan"
slug: "richard-kagan"
description: "Richard Lauren Kagan is an American historian specializing in modern history. His focus of research is on the intellectual and legal history of the Spanish Empire under the Habsburgs."
tagline: "American historian"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.55
  momentum:             0.6122448979591836
  historical:           5.675234666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kagan"
    title: "Richard Kagan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ريتشارد كاجان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_L._Kagan"
    title: "Richard L. Kagan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%9B%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Каган, Ричард Лорен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kagan"
    title: "Richard Kagan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_L._Kagan"
    title: "Richard L. Kagan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6108653"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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