# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-g-payne
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:59:03.548Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-g-payne"
name: "Donald G. Payne"
slug: "donald-g-payne"
description: "Donald Gordon Payne was an English author, most famous for his 1959 novel, Walkabout. Payne was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1962."
tagline: "British writer (1924-2018)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1924-01-03"
deathDate: "2018-08-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.41
  momentum:             0.5166051660516605
  historical:           6.343593333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0131597/"
    handle:    "nm0131597"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%D9%88%D9%86%D9%84%DA%88_%D8%AC%DB%8C_%D9%BE%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "ڈونلڈ جی پین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%8A._%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "دونالد جي. باين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%89._%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "دونالد جى. باين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Cameron"
    title: "Ian Cameron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_G._Payne"
    title: "Donald G. Payne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Gordon_Payne"
    title: "Donald Gordon Payne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Gordon_Payne"
    title: "Donald Gordon Payne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q331593"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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