# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-james-child
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:19:11.318Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-james-child"
name: "Francis James Child"
slug: "francis-james-child"
description: "Francis James Child was an American scholar, educator, and folklorist, best known today for his collection of English and Scottish ballads now known as the Child Ballads. Child was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, where he produced influential editions of English poetry. In 1876 he was named Harvard's first professor of English, a position which allowed him to focus on academic research. It was during this time that he began work on the Child Ballads."
tagline: "American folklorist (1825–1896)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francis_J._Child.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1825-02-01"
deathDate: "1896-09-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             15
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  currentAttention:     0.24
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump