# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brinley-newton-john
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:43:50.022Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brinley-newton-john"
name: "Brinley Newton-John"
slug: "brinley-newton-john"
description: "Brinley \"Brin\" Newton-John was a Welsh–Australian university administrator, professor of German literature, intelligence officer, and Wing commander during the Second World War. Newton-John took part in the top-secret project founded to decipher the German Enigma machine and arrested Rudolf Hess, who had fled from Germany. He was the father of singer Olivia Newton-John."
tagline: "Professor of German literature (1914–1992)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4e/Brinley_Newton-John.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1914-03-05"
deathDate: "1992-07-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.35
  momentum:             0.6655413551965277
  historical:           3.025894666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  58
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryn_Newton-John"
    title: "Bryn Newton-John"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinley_Newton-John"
    title: "Brinley Newton-John"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinley_Newton-John"
    title: "Brinley Newton-John"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q849718"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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