# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hedd-wyn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:24:07.692Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hedd-wyn"
name: "Hedd Wyn"
slug: "hedd-wyn"
description: "Hedd Wyn was a Welsh-language poet who was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele during World War I. He was posthumously awarded the bard's chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod. Evans, who had been awarded several chairs for his poetry, was inspired to take the Bardic name Hedd Wyn from the way sunlight penetrated the mist in the Meirionnydd valleys."
tagline: "Welsh poet who was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele (1887–1917)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hedd_Wyn_01(a-dg).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1887-01-13"
deathDate: "1917-07-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.47
  momentum:             25
  historical:           13.604588
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Hedd Wyn"
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    title: "Hedd Wyn"
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    title: "Hedd Wyn"
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    title: "Hedd Wyn"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump