# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-porter-q278862
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:50:20.146Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-porter-q278862"
name: "Henry Porter"
slug: "henry-porter-q278862"
description: "Henry Porter is an English author and journalist. He is a writer of award-winning thrillers and was, until 2014, a regular columnist for The Observer, focusing on civil liberties and the threat to democracy. He is also an activist, chairing the Joint Media Unit of the People’s Vote campaign and The Convention, which stages large scale political conferences. Until 2018, he was the British editor of Vanity Fair, a position he held for 25 years. He has written ten novels, including a children’s book. The third part of a quartet of thrillers, The Old Enemy, was published in April 2021."
tagline: "British journalist (born 1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/HP_in_Cleveland_Square_2018.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1953-03-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.746941333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/HenryCPorter"
    handle:    "HenryCPorter"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B1_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A)"
    title: "هنري بوتر (صحفي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Хенри Портър"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Porter_(Journalist)"
    title: "Henry Porter (Journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Porter_(journalist)"
    title: "Henry Porter (journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Porter_(%C3%A9crivain)"
    title: "Henry Porter (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Porter"
    title: "Henry Porter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Porter_(journalist)"
    title: "Henry Porter (journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Porter_(jornalista)"
    title: "Henry Porter (jornalista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Porter"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q278862"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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