# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-porter-q354728
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:03:21.975Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-porter-q354728"
name: "Roy Porter"
slug: "roy-porter-q354728"
description: "Roy Sydney Porter was a British historian known for his work on the history of medicine. He retired in 2001 as the director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine at University College London (UCL)."
tagline: "British historian of medicine (1946–2002)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-12-31"
deathDate: "2002-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.235388
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roy_Porter"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B1_(%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B0_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%8A)"
    title: "روي بورتر (أستاذ جامعي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B1_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%AE_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%87)"
    title: "روى بورتر (مؤرخ من المملكه المتحده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Porter"
    title: "Roy Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Porter"
    title: "Roy Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Porter"
    title: "Roy Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Porter"
    title: "Roy Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BE%85%E4%BC%8A%C2%B7%E6%B3%A2%E7%89%B9"
    title: "羅伊·波特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q354728"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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