# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/horace-de-vere-cole
# Generated: 2026-08-31T22:28:33.665Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/horace-de-vere-cole"
name: "Horace de Vere Cole"
slug: "horace-de-vere-cole"
description: "William Horace de Vere Cole was an Anglo-Irish prankster born in Ballincollig, County Cork. His most famous prank was the Dreadnought hoax where he and several others in blackface, pretending to be an Abyssinian prince and his entourage, were given a tour of the Royal Navy battleship HMS Dreadnought."
tagline: "Irish prankster (1881–1936)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Virginia_Woolf_in_Dreadnought_Hoax.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1881-05-05"
deathDate: "1936-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.78
  momentum:             15
  historical:           9.241153333333333
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Коул, Гораций де Вир"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_de_Vere_Cole"
    title: "Horace de Vere Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_de_Vere_Cole"
    title: "Horace de Vere Cole"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_de_Vere_Cole"
    title: "Horace de Vere Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_de_Vere_Cole"
    title: "Horace de Vere Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_de_Vere_Cole"
    title: "Horace de Vere Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9B%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB"
    title: "ホレス・ド・ヴィアー・コール"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_de_Vere_Cole"
    title: "Horace de Vere Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_de_Vere_Cole"
    title: "Horace de Vere Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_de_Vere_Cole"
    title: "Horace de Vere Cole"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2519938"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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