# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zoltan-dornyei
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:19:10.070Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zoltan-dornyei"
name: "Zoltán Dörnyei"
slug: "zoltan-dornyei"
description: "Zoltán Dörnyei was a Hungarian linguist. He was a professor of psycholinguistics at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. He was known for his work on second language acquisition and the psychology of the language learner, in particular on motivation in second language learning, having published numerous books and papers on these topics."
tagline: "Psycholinguist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zolt%C3%A1n_D%C3%B6rnyei_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1960-03-11"
deathDate: "2022-06-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.355617333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Золтан Дернеї"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zolt%C3%A1n_D%C3%B6rnyei"
    title: "Zoltán Dörnyei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dörnyei Zoltán"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BE%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4"
    title: "ゾルタン・ドルニェイ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zolt%C3%A1n_D%C3%B6rnyei"
    title: "Zoltán Dörnyei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%91%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B8%2C_%D0%97%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Дёрнеи, Золтан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zolt%C3%A1n_D%C3%B6rnyei"
    title: "Zoltán Dörnyei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8073652"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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