# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sidney-herbert-ray
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:44:01.865Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sidney-herbert-ray"
name: "Sidney Herbert Ray"
slug: "sidney-herbert-ray"
description: "Sidney Herbert Ray was a British comparative and descriptive linguist who specialised in Melanesian languages."
tagline: "British linguist (1858–1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Torres_Straits_1898_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1858-05-28"
deathDate: "1939-01-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Sidney Herbert Ray"
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    title: "سيدنى هربرت راى"
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    title: "Sidney Herbert Ray"
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    title: "Sidney Herbert Ray"
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    title: "Sidney Herbert Ray"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Herbert_Ray"
    title: "Sidney Herbert Ray"
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  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Herbert_Ray"
    title: "Sidney Herbert Ray"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Herbert_Ray"
    title: "Sidney Herbert Ray"
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    title: "Sidney Herbert Ray"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Herbert_Ray"
    title: "Sidney Herbert Ray"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q596338"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump