# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rick-turner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:42:51.957Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rick-turner"
name: "Rick Turner"
slug: "rick-turner"
description: "Richard Turner, known as Rick Turner, was a South African academic and anti-apartheid activist who was murdered, possibly by the South African security forces, in 1978. Nelson Mandela described Turner \"as a source of inspiration\"."
tagline: "South African philosopher (1941-1978)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1941-09-25"
deathDate: "1978-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.284306666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "ريك تورنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Turner"
    title: "Rick Turner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B1_(%D9%86%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A)"
    title: "ريك تورنر (نقابي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Turner"
    title: "Richard Turner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Turner"
    title: "Rick Turner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Turner_(philosopher)"
    title: "Rick Turner (philosopher)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735391"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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