# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-hamilton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:21:00.026Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-hamilton"
name: "Donald Hamilton"
slug: "donald-hamilton"
description: "Donald Bengtsson Hamilton was an American writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction, but also crime fiction and westerns, such as The Big Country. He is known best for his long-running Matt Helm series (1960–1993), which chronicles the adventures of an undercover counter-agent/assassin working for a secret American government agency. The noted critic Anthony Boucher wrote: \"Donald Hamilton has brought to the spy novel the authentic hard realism of Dashiell Hammett; and his stories are as compelling, and probably as close to the sordid truth of espionage, as any now being told.\""
tagline: "American writer (1916–2006)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1916-03-24"
deathDate: "2006-11-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.430852
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0357824/"
    handle:    "nm0357824"
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    title: "Donald Hamilton"
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    title: "دونالد هاميلتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Donald Hamilton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Hamilton"
    title: "Donald Hamilton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Hamilton"
    title: "Donald Hamilton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Hamilton"
    title: "Donald Hamilton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Hamilton"
    title: "Donald Hamilton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Hamilton"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q449797"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/31062"
    title: "Donald Hamilton"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump