# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-riddell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:38:33.195Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-riddell"
name: "Chris Riddell"
slug: "chris-riddell"
description: "Chris Riddell is a South African-born English illustrator and occasional writer of children's books and a political cartoonist for the Observer. He has won three Kate Greenaway Medals – the British librarians' annual award for the best-illustrated children's book, and two of his works were commended runners-up, a distinction dropped after 2002."
tagline: "British illustrator and cartoonist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chris_Riddell_Feb_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1962-04-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.69
  momentum:             6.290548590717369
  historical:           11.282584
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/chrisriddell50"
    handle:    "chrisriddell50"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/chris_riddell/"
    handle:    "chris_riddell"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/authorchrisriddell"
    handle:    "authorchrisriddell"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Riddell"
    title: "Chris Riddell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Riddell"
    title: "Chris Riddell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Riddell"
    title: "Chris Riddell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Riddell"
    title: "Chris Riddell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Riddell"
    title: "Chris Riddell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Riddell"
    title: "Chris Riddell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Riddell"
    title: "Chris Riddell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Riddell"
    title: "Chris Riddell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Riddell"
    title: "Chris Riddell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Riddell"
    title: "Chris Riddell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Ридделл, Крис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Кріс Рідделл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d7b09d5c-a263-4f61-a2b6-df9874545952"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q711830"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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