# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-hyde
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:36:44.572Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-hyde"
name: "Thomas Hyde"
slug: "thomas-hyde"
description: "Thomas Hyde was an English linguist, historian, librarian, classicist, and orientalist. His chief work was the 1700 De Vetere Religione Persarum [On the Ancient Religion of the Persians], the first attempt to use Arab and Persian sources to correct the errors of Greek and Roman historians in their descriptions of Zoroastrianism and the other beliefs of the ancient Persians, in addition to producing translations of some Zoroastrian texts."
tagline: "British orientalist (1636-1703)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas-Hyde.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1636-06-29"
deathDate: "1703-02-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.016092
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Thomas Hyde"
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    title: "Thomas Hyde"
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    title: "Thomas Hyde"
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    title: "Thomas Hyde"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hyde"
    title: "Thomas Hyde"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump