# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/terence-osborn-ranger
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:56:51.113Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/terence-osborn-ranger"
name: "Terence Osborn Ranger"
slug: "terence-osborn-ranger"
description: "Terence \"Terry\" Osborn Ranger was a prominent British Africanist, best known as a historian of Zimbabwe. Part of the post-colonial generation of historians, his work spanned the pre- and post-Independence (1980) period in Zimbabwe, from the 1960s to the present. He published and edited dozens of books and wrote hundreds of articles and book chapters, including co-editing The Invention of Tradition (1983) with Eric Hobsbawm. He was the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the University of Oxford and the first Africanist fellow of the British Academy."
tagline: "British historian (1929–2015)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-11-29"
deathDate: "2015-01-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.143197333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B1"
    title: "تيرينس اوزبورن رينجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Osborn_Ranger"
    title: "Terence Osborn Ranger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Ranger"
    title: "Terence Ranger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC"
    title: "テレンス・レンジャー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Ranger"
    title: "Terence Ranger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Ranger"
    title: "Terence Ranger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2404525"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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