# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-overy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:32:13.404Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-overy"
name: "Richard Overy"
slug: "richard-overy"
description: "Richard James Overy is a British historian who has published on the history of World War II and Nazi Germany. In 2007, as The Times editor of Complete History of the World, he chose the 50 key dates of world history."
tagline: "British historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Overy.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1947-12-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump