# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sydney-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:21:52.489Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sydney-smith"
name: "Sydney Smith"
slug: "sydney-smith"
description: "Sydney Smith was an English writer and Anglican clergyman, mainly famous for his wit. Besides his energetic parochial work, he was known for his writing and philosophy, founding the Edinburgh Review, lecturing at the Royal Institution and his rhyming salad dressing recipe."
tagline: "English wit, writer, Anglican cleric (1771-1845)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sydney_smith.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1771-06-03"
deathDate: "1845-02-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.68
  momentum:             1.739130434782609
  historical:           9.706410666666669
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "سيدنى سميث (صحفى)"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Smith_(%C3%A9crivain)"
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    title: "Смит, Сидней (писатель)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump