# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harold-acton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:16:43.994Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harold-acton"
name: "Harold Acton"
slug: "harold-acton"
description: "Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete who was a prominent member of the Bright Young Things. He wrote fiction, biography, history and autobiography. During his stay in China, he studied the Chinese language, traditional drama, and poetry, some of which he translated."
tagline: "British writer and scholar (1904–1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harold_Acton_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1904-07-05"
deathDate: "1994-02-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
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  currentAttention:     5.720000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump