# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-fagan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:21:50.718Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-fagan"
name: "Henry Fagan"
slug: "henry-fagan"
description: "Henry Allan Fagan, QC was the Chief Justice of South Africa from 1957 to 1959 and previously a Member of Parliament and the Minister of Native Affairs in J. B. M. Hertzog's government. Fagan had been an early supporter of the Afrikaans language movement and a noted Afrikaans playwright and novelist. Though he was a significant figure in the rise of Afrikaner nationalism and a long-term member of the Broederbond, he later became an important opponent of Hendrik Verwoerd's National Party and is best known for the report of the Fagan Commission, whose relatively liberal approach to racial integration amounted to the Smuts government's last, doomed stand against the policy of apartheid."
tagline: "South African journalist and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henry_Allan_Fagan_c.1916.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1889-04-04"
deathDate: "1963-12-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.03
  momentum:             0.7260726072607263
  historical:           4.6117
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fagan"
    title: "Henry Fagan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%A3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "هنري ألان فاغان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "هنرى فاجان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Allan_Fagan"
    title: "Henry Allan Fagan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Allan_Fagan"
    title: "Henry Allan Fagan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13034914"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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