# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-harry
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:06:20.430Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-harry"
name: "Bill Harry"
slug: "bill-harry"
description: "William Harry is a British journalist who founded Mersey Beat, a newspaper of the early 1960s focused on the Liverpool music scene. Harry had previously started various magazines and newspapers, such as Biped and Premier, while at Liverpool's Junior School of Art. He later attended the Liverpool College of Art, where his fellow students included John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe, who both later performed with the Beatles. He published a magazine, Jazz, in 1958, and worked as an assistant editor on the University of Liverpool's charity magazine, Pantosphinx."
tagline: "British journalist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1938-09-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.89
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.823184
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f205d555-7ddb-4cf4-b2bf-f6fb6a946173"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A"
    title: "بيل هاري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89"
    title: "بيل هارى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Harry"
    title: "Bill Harry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Harry"
    title: "Bill Harry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Harry"
    title: "Bill Harry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%2C_%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Гарри, Билл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Harry"
    title: "Bill Harry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2903237"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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