# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bil-keane
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:11:29.583Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bil-keane"
name: "Bil Keane"
slug: "bil-keane"
description: "William Aloysius Keane was an American cartoonist best known for the newspaper comic strip The Family Circus. He began it in 1960 and his son Jeff Keane continues to produce it."
tagline: "American comic strip cartoonist (1922-2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bil_Keane_(1990).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1922-10-05"
deathDate: "2011-11-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.350402666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1126363/"
    handle:    "nm1126363"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bil_Keane"
    title: "Bil Keane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86_(%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B5_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "بيل كين (رسام بالرصاص من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bil_Keane"
    title: "Bil Keane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Kin"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bil_Keane"
    title: "Bil Keane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bil_Keane"
    title: "Bil Keane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q506401"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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