# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-schama
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:26:42.776Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-schama"
name: "Simon Schama"
slug: "simon-schama"
description: "Sir Simon Michael Schama is an English historian and television presenter. He specialises in art history, Dutch history, Jewish history, and French history. As of January 2026 he is a professor of history and art history at Columbia University."
tagline: "British University Professor of Art History and History"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Simon_Schama_FT_Business_Book_of_the_Year_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
  name: "Writers"
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-02-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump