# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-birtles
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:29:42.281Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-birtles"
name: "Francis Birtles"
slug: "francis-birtles"
description: "Francis Edwin Birtles was an Australian adventurer, photographer, cyclist, and filmmaker, who set many long-distance cycling and driving records, including becoming in 1927 the first man to drive a car from England to Australia. Birtles had set a speed record driving from Darwin to Melbourne the previous year."
tagline: "Australian adventurer (1881-1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francis_Birtles_portrait_in_Arnhem_Land.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1881-11-07"
deathDate: "1941-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.938553333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "فرنسيس بيرتليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "فرنسيس بيرتليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Birtles"
    title: "Francis Birtles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Birtles"
    title: "Francis Birtles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5480241"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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