# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-fitzball
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:01:01.215Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-fitzball"
name: "Edward Fitzball"
slug: "edward-fitzball"
description: "Edward Fitzball was a popular English playwright, who specialised in melodrama. His real surname was Ball, and he was born at Burwell, Cambridgeshire."
tagline: "British writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edward_Fitzball.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1793-03-20"
deathDate: "1873-10-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.41
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.80198
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0280152/"
    handle:    "nm0280152"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fitzball"
    title: "Edward Fitzball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fitzball"
    title: "Edward Fitzball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fitzball"
    title: "Edward Fitzball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fitzball"
    title: "Edward Fitzball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/12cc42dd-35ed-4712-a946-972d57ab300e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1292199"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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