# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-fergusson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:29:38.852Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-fergusson"
name: "Robert Fergusson"
slug: "robert-fergusson"
description: "Robert Fergusson was a Scottish poet. After formal education at the University of St Andrews, Fergusson led a bohemian life in Edinburgh, the city of his birth, then at the height of intellectual and cultural ferment as part of the Scottish Enlightenment. Many of his extant poems were printed from 1771 onwards in Walter Ruddiman's Weekly Magazine, and a collected works was first published early in 1773. Despite a short life, his career was highly influential, especially through its impact on Robert Burns. He wrote both Scottish English and the Scots language, and it is his vivid and masterly writing in the latter leid for which he is principally acclaimed."
tagline: "Scottish poet and writer (1750-1774)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Fergusson_statue.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1750-09-05"
deathDate: "1774-10-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.826064
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Роберт Фергюссон"
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    title: "Robert Fergusson"
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    title: "Robert Fergusson"
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    title: "Robert Fergusson"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fergusson"
    title: "Robert Fergusson"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fergusson"
    title: "Robert Fergusson"
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    title: "Robert Fergusson"
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    title: "Ռոբերտ Ֆերգյուսոն"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump