# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gillian-cross
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:55:01.449Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gillian-cross"
name: "Gillian Cross"
slug: "gillian-cross"
description: "Gillian Claire Cross is a British author of children's books. She won the 1990 Carnegie Medal for Wolf and the 1992 Whitbread Children's Book Award for The Great Elephant Chase. She also wrote The Demon Headmaster book series, which was later turned into a television series by the BBC in January 1996; a sequel series was produced in 2019."
tagline: "British children's author"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-12-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.13
  momentum:             22.77
  historical:           8.550505333333334
  currentAttention:     14.84
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2002970/"
    handle:    "nm2002970"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.gillian-cross.co.uk"
sources:
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    title: "جیلین کراس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "جيليان كروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "جيليان كروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Cross"
    title: "Gillian Cross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Cross"
    title: "Gillian Cross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Cross"
    title: "Gillian Cross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Cross"
    title: "Gillian Cross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Cross"
    title: "Gillian Cross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Cross"
    title: "Gillian Cross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q275092"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3699375"
    title: "Gillian Cross"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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