# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sorley-maclean
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:31:42.900Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sorley-maclean"
name: "Sorley MacLean"
slug: "sorley-maclean"
description: "Sorley MacLean was a Scottish Gaelic poet, described by the Scottish Poetry Library as \"one of the major Scottish poets of the modern era\" because of his \"mastery of his chosen medium and his engagement with the European poetic tradition and European politics\". Nobel Prize Laureate Seamus Heaney credited MacLean with saving Scottish Gaelic poetry."
tagline: "Scottish poet (1911–1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Somhairlemacgilleain2.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1911-10-26"
deathDate: "1996-11-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.8
  momentum:             3.454545454545455
  historical:           13.89348666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.sorleymaclean.org"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "سورلي ماكلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سورلى ماكليان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8"
    title: "সোর্লি ম্যাকলিন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somhairle_MacGill-Eain"
    title: "Somhairle MacGill-Eain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorley_MacLean"
    title: "Sorley MacLean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorley_MacLean"
    title: "Sorley MacLean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorley_MacLean"
    title: "Sorley MacLean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorley_MacLean"
    title: "Sorley MacLean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somhairle_MacGill-Eain"
    title: "Somhairle MacGill-Eain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorley_MacLean"
    title: "Sorley MacLean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somhairle_MacGill-Eain"
    title: "Somhairle MacGill-Eain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somhairle_MacGill-Eain"
    title: "Somhairle MacGill-Eain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somhairle_MacGill-Eain"
    title: "Somhairle MacGill-Eain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%AC%D5%A5%D5%B5_%D5%84%D5%A1%D6%84%D5%AC%D5%AB%D5%B6"
    title: "Սորլեյ Մաքլին"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorley_MacLean"
    title: "Sorley MacLean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorley_MacLean"
    title: "Sorley MacLean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sorley_MacLean"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1396507"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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