# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dick-turpin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:37:00.444Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dick-turpin"
name: "Dick Turpin"
slug: "dick-turpin"
description: "Richard Turpin was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. Turpin may have followed his father's trade as a butcher early in his life but, by the early 1730s, he had joined a gang of deer thieves and, later, became a poacher, burglar, horse thief, and killer. He is also known for a fictional 200-mile (320 km) overnight ride from London to York on his horse Black Bess, a story that was made famous by the Victorian novelist William Harrison Ainsworth almost 100 years after Turpin's death."
tagline: "English highwayman (1705–1739)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dick_turpin_jumping_hornsey_tollgate.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1705-09-21"
deathDate: "1739-04-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.56
  momentum:             10
  historical:           16.37470933333333
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Дік Терпін"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Дик Търпин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dick Turpin"
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    title: "Dick Turpin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dick Turpin"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Turpin"
    title: "Dick Turpin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dick Turpin"
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    title: "Dick Turpin"
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    title: "Dick Turpin"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Turpin"
    title: "Dick Turpin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dick Turpin"
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    title: "Турпин, Дик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dick Turpin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump