# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ward-w-briggs
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:07:08.928Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ward-w-briggs"
name: "Ward W. Briggs"
slug: "ward-w-briggs"
description: "Ward W. Briggs Jr. is an American classicist and historian of classical studies. He taught until 2011 as the Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Humanities at the University of South Carolina."
tagline: "American classical philologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945-11-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.44
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.668970666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_W._Briggs"
    title: "Ward W. Briggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88._%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%BA%D8%B2"
    title: "وارد دبليو. بريغز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88._%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%B2"
    title: "وارد دبليو. بريجز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B3%D1%81%2C_%D0%A3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Бриггс, Уорд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_W._Briggs"
    title: "Ward W. Briggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_W._Briggs"
    title: "Ward W. Briggs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2549066"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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