# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-barron
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:17:10.552Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-barron"
name: "Brian Barron"
slug: "brian-barron"
description: "Brian Munro Barron MBE was a British foreign and war correspondent for BBC News. During a career spanning five decades he reported on many major world events, including the end of British rule in Aden, the Vietnam War, the troubles in Northern Ireland, the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 Iraq War. He was also the recipient of a Royal Television Society award for Reporter of the Year in 1980, and was presented with an International Reporting Prize for work in Latin America. He was awarded the MBE for his services to broadcasting in 2006."
tagline: "British journalist (1940–2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brian_Barron.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1940-04-28"
deathDate: "2009-09-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.37
  momentum:             15.31531531531532
  historical:           6.153961333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2366391/"
    handle:    "nm2366391"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Barron"
    title: "Brian Barron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "برايان بارون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "برايان بارون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Barron"
    title: "Brian Barron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Barron"
    title: "Brian Barron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Barron"
    title: "Brian Barron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3303778"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2544322"
    title: "Brian Le Baron"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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