# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/grey-owl
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:13:55.495Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/grey-owl"
name: "Grey Owl"
slug: "grey-owl"
description: "Archibald Stansfeld Belaney, commonly known as Grey Owl, was a popular Canadian writer, public speaker and conservationist. Born an Englishman, he immigrated to Canada and, in the latter years of his life, passed as half-Indigenous, falsely claiming he was the son of a Scottish man and an Apache woman. With books, articles and public appearances promoting wilderness conservation, he achieved fame in the 1930s. Shortly after his death in 1938, his real identity as the Englishman Archie Belaney was exposed. He has been called one of the first persons to engage in Indigenous identity fraud in Canada."
tagline: "Canadian writer and lecturer (1888–1938) who passed as half Indian in the latter years of his life"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Grey_Owl.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1888-09-18"
deathDate: "1938-04-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.852684
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/ch0059029/"
    handle:    "ch0059029"
sources:
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    title: "Сіра сова (письменник)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "غري آول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Сивата сова"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mussol Gris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Grey Owl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Grey Owl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Owl"
    title: "Grey Owl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Búho Gris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hontz_Gris"
    title: "Hontz Gris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Գորշ Բու"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Grey Owl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Сұр Жапалақ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Grey Owl"
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    title: "Grey Owl"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Серая Сова"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1377706"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1269483"
    title: "Grey Owl"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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