# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-lear
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:30:54.168Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-lear"
name: "Edward Lear"
slug: "edward-lear"
description: "Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised but which term he never used."
tagline: "British artist, illustrator, author and poet (1812-1888)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edward_Lear_1866.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1812-05-12"
deathDate: "1888-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.67
  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.077524
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 234
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0495175/"
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    title: "Edward Lear"
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    title: "Edward Lear"
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    title: "Edward Lear"
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    title: "Edward Lear"
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    title: "Edward Lear"
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    title: "Edward Lear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edward Lear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edward Lear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edward Lear"
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    title: "Edward Lear"
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    title: "Edward Lear"
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    title: "Edward Lear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "אדוארד ליר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edward Lear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump