# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephen-ellis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:31:37.094Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephen-ellis"
name: "Stephen Ellis"
slug: "stephen-ellis"
description: "Stephen Ellis was a British historian and Africanist whose research focused on post-colonial West Africa and South Africa. He was a former editor of Africa Confidential and African Affairs, a senior researcher at the African Studies Centre Leiden, and a professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam."
tagline: "British historian (1953–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/EllisCompier2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953-06-13"
deathDate: "2015-07-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.56
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.804896
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "ستيفن اليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Ellis_(Historiker)"
    title: "Stephen Ellis (Historiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Ellis_(historian)"
    title: "Stephen Ellis (historian)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "استیون الیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Ellis"
    title: "Stephen Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27917025"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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