# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-delaney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:17:57.773Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-delaney"
name: "Frank Delaney"
slug: "frank-delaney"
description: "Francis James Joseph Raphael Delaney was an Irish novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He was the author of The New York Times best-seller Ireland, the non-fiction book Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea and many other works of fiction, non-fiction and collections."
tagline: "Irish writer and journalist (1942–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frank_Delaney_at_book_signing.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1942-10-24"
deathDate: "2017-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.26
  momentum:             0.3872752420470263
  historical:           6.160369333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1223712/"
    handle:    "nm1223712"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Delaney"
    title: "Frank Delaney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "فرانك ديلانى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Delaney"
    title: "Frank Delaney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Delaney"
    title: "Frank Delaney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9_%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "فرانک دلانی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Delaney"
    title: "Frank Delaney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1394927"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2610307"
    title: "Frank Delaney"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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