# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-kiernan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:28:20.674Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/victor-kiernan"
name: "Victor Kiernan"
slug: "victor-kiernan"
description: "Edward Victor Gordon Kiernan was a British historian and a member of the Communist Party Historians Group. Kiernan's work was prominent in the field of Marxist historiography in Britain, analyzing historical events from a Marxist point of view. Belonging to a group of prominent British Marxist historians active in the 20th century, Kiernan was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain from 1934 until 1959, when he left in protest over the party's response to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He was also involved in promoting Urdu poetry among Western audiences."
tagline: "British historian"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1913-09-04"
deathDate: "2009-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.481930666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Kiernan"
    title: "Victor Kiernan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "فيكتور كيرنان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Kiernan"
    title: "Victor Kiernan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%8C%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80"
    title: "Кьернан, Виктор"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Kiernan"
    title: "Victor Kiernan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Kiernan"
    title: "Victor Kiernan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4251027"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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