# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tomas-riad
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:54:57.887Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tomas-riad"
name: "Tomas Riad"
slug: "tomas-riad"
description: "Tomas Staffan Riad is a Swedish linguist, specialised in Swedish phonology and prosody. He received his Ph.D. from Stockholm University in 1992 and is professor at the Department of Scandinavian languages there. Riad is also a violinist, trained at the Royal College of Music in London and has worked as a full-time musician. He was elected a member of the Swedish Academy on 29 September 2011."
tagline: "Swedish linguist (born 1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tomas_Riad%2C_2019_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "SE"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959-11-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           11.808388
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Tomas Riad"
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    title: "Tomas Riad"
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    title: "Tomas Riad"
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    title: "Tomas Riad"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump