# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-friedman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:07:10.615Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/victor-friedman"
name: "Victor Friedman"
slug: "victor-friedman"
description: "Victor A. Friedman is an American linguist and Slavist. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in Humanities at the University of Chicago. He holds an appointment in the Department of Linguistics and an associate appointment in the Department of Anthropology. He has published numerous articles in English, Macedonian, and Albanian."
tagline: "American linguist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-10-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.272390666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/vfriedman"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Friedman"
    title: "Victor Friedman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "فكتور فريدمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "فيكتور فريدمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Friedman"
    title: "Victor Friedman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Виктор Фридман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80_(%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82)"
    title: "Фридман, Виктор (лингвист)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7925907"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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