# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ron-johnston
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:37:42.633Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ron-johnston"
name: "Ron Johnston"
slug: "ron-johnston"
description: "Ronald John Johnston, OBE, FAcSS, FBA was a British geographer, known for elaborating his discipline's foundations, particularly its history and nature, and for his contributions to urban social geography and electoral geography. His broad scope is illustrated by the fact that he made extensive use of quantitative methods, while critically dealing with subjects of social and political relevance. Johnston authored or co-authored more than 50 books and 800 papers, and edited or co-edited a further more than 40 books. He edited The Dictionary of Human Geography and for the first four editions was its main editor."
tagline: "British geographer (1941-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ron_Johnston-FIG_1999_(2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1941-03-30"
deathDate: "2020-05-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.41
  momentum:             15.15228426395939
  historical:           5.673866666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ロン・J・ジョンストン"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump