# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-lynn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:32:52.486Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-lynn"
name: "Richard Lynn"
slug: "richard-lynn"
description: "Richard Lynn was a controversial English psychologist and self-described \"scientific racist\" who advocated for a genetic relationship between race and intelligence. He was the editor-in-chief of Mankind Quarterly, a white supremacist journal. He was lecturer in psychology at the University of Exeter and professor of psychology at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, and at the University of Ulster at Coleraine. Lynn was a professor emeritus of psychology at Ulster University, but had the title withdrawn by the university in 2018."
tagline: "British psychologist (1930–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prof-Richard-Lynn-7635-2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-02-20"
deathDate: "2023-07-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.rlynn.co.uk/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump