# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ham-fisher
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:51:08.016Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ham-fisher"
name: "Ham Fisher"
slug: "ham-fisher"
description: "Hammond Edward \"Ham\" Fisher was an American comic strip writer and cartoonist. He is best known for his long, popular run on Joe Palooka, which was launched in 1930 and ranked as one of the top five newspaper comics strips for several years."
tagline: "American comic strip writer and cartoonist (1900–1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ham_Fisher_1939.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1900-09-24"
deathDate: "1955-12-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.61
  momentum:             2.670454545454545
  historical:           7.216056
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0279527/"
    handle:    "nm0279527"
sources:
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B9%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%82_%E0%B4%AB%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B7%E0%B5%BC"
    title: "ഹാം ഫിഷർ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B4%D8%B1"
    title: "هام فيشر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_Fisher"
    title: "Ham Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_Fisher"
    title: "Ham Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_Fisher"
    title: "Ham Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_Fisher"
    title: "Ham Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_Fisher"
    title: "Ham Fisher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1572551"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1569805"
    title: "Ham Fisher"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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