# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-finnegan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:39:35.849Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-finnegan"
name: "Ruth Finnegan"
slug: "ruth-finnegan"
description: "Ruth Hilary Finnegan is a Northern Irish linguistic anthropologist and Emeritus Professor of the Open University."
tagline: "British author, professor, linguistic anthropologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ruth_Finnegan_smiling.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1933-12-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.68
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.339705333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.ruthhfinnegan.com"
sources:
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    title: "Рут Фіннеґан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_H._Finnigan"
    title: "Ruth H. Finnigan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Funnegan"
    title: "Ruth Funnegan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Finnegan"
    title: "Ruth Finnegan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Finnegan"
    title: "Ruth Finnegan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%8D%E3%82%AC%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ルース・フィネガン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Hilary_Finnegan"
    title: "Ruth Hilary Finnegan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37315513"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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