# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-hamilton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:05:50.895Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-hamilton"
name: "Charles Hamilton"
slug: "charles-hamilton"
description: "Charles Harold St. John Hamilton was an English writer, specialising in writing long-running series of stories for weekly magazines about recurrent casts of characters, his most frequent and famous genre being boys' public school stories, though he also wrote in other genres. He used a variety of pen-names, generally using a different name for each set of characters he wrote about, the most famous being Frank Richards for the Greyfriars School stories featuring Billy Bunter. Other important pen-names included Martin Clifford, Owen Conquest and Ralph Redway. He also wrote hundreds of stories under his real name such as the Ken King stories for The Modern Boy."
tagline: "English writer of school stories (1876–1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Hamilton_1912.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1876-08-08"
deathDate: "1961-12-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.7
  momentum:             4.520917678812415
  historical:           5.972069333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Hamilton_(writer)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D9%87%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_(%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%86%DB%8C)"
    title: "چارلز همیلتون (یازیچی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hamilton_(Schriftsteller)"
    title: "Charles Hamilton (Schriftsteller)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hamilton_(writer)"
    title: "Charles Hamilton (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hamilton_(verkisto)"
    title: "Charles Hamilton (verkisto)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hamilton_(%C3%A9crivain)"
    title: "Charles Hamilton (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hamilton_(forfatter)"
    title: "Charles Hamilton (forfatter)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1064722"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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