# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-talbert
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:42:46.313Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-talbert"
name: "Richard Talbert"
slug: "richard-talbert"
description: "Richard John Alexander Talbert is a British-American contemporary ancient historian and classicist on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor of History (1988-2020) and then Research Professor in charge of the Ancient World Mapping Center until his retirement in 2024. Talbert is a scholar of ancient geography and ideas of space in the ancient Mediterranean world."
tagline: "British-American historian and classicist (born 1947)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-04-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "رچرڈ ٹالبرٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريتشارد تالبرت"
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    title: "ريتشارد تالبرت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Talbert"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Talbert"
    title: "Richard Talbert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Talbert"
    title: "Richard Talbert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Talbert"
    title: "Richard Talbert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J.A._Talbert"
    title: "Richard J.A. Talbert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Talbert"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump