# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerald-griffin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:42:31.151Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerald-griffin"
name: "Gerald Griffin"
slug: "gerald-griffin"
description: "Gerald Griffin was an Irish-born novelist, poet and playwright. His novel The Collegians was the basis of Dion Boucicault's play The Colleen Bawn. Feeling he was \"wasting his time\" writing fiction, he joined the Christian Brothers, a Catholic religious congregation founded by Edmund Ignatius Rice to teach the children of the poor."
tagline: "Irish-born novelist, poet and playwright (1803 – 1840), author of the novel The Collegians"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gerald_Griffin_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1803-12-12"
deathDate: "1840-06-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.37
  momentum:             8.571428571428571
  historical:           6.142333333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "جيرالد غريفين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيرالد جريفين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gerald Griffin"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Griffin"
    title: "Gerald Griffin"
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  - url: "https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%9C%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%A1%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%97%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AB%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%8D"
    title: "ಜೆರಾಲ್ಡ್ ಗ್ರಿಫಿನ್"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gerald Griffin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump