# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brendan-behan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:02:35.641Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brendan-behan"
name: "Brendan Behan"
slug: "brendan-behan"
description: "Brendan Francis Aidan Behan was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and Irish Republican, an activist who wrote in both English and Irish. His widely acknowledged alcohol dependence, despite attempts to treat it, impacted his creative capacities and contributed to health and social problems which curtailed his artistic output and finally his life. He is widely regarded as one of Ireland's greatest writers."
tagline: "Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright (1923-1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BRENDANBEHAN.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1923-02-09"
deathDate: "1964-03-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump