# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/turrell-v-wylie
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:11:09.624Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/turrell-v-wylie"
name: "Turrell V. Wylie"
slug: "turrell-v-wylie"
description: "Turrell Verl \"Terry\" Wylie was an American scholar, Tibetologist, sinologist and professor known as one of the 20th century's leading scholars of Tibet. He taught as a professor of Tibetan Studies at the University of Washington and served as the first chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Literature. Wylie founded the Tibetan Studies program at the University of Washington, the first of its kind in the United States, setting a major precedent for future programs and research in the field. His system for rendering the Tibetan language in Latin script, known as Wylie transliteration, is the primary system used for transcribing Tibetan in academic and historical contexts."
tagline: "American tibetologist (1927–1984)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Turrell_Wylie.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1927-08-20"
deathDate: "1984-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "特瑞尔·威利"
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    title: "توريل فيرل وايلى"
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    title: "Turrell V. Wylie"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turrell_Wylie"
    title: "Turrell Wylie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Turrell Wylie"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump