# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-denis-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:01:13.331Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-denis-johnson"
name: "Ian Denis Johnson"
slug: "ian-denis-johnson"
description: "Ian Johnson is a Canadian-born American journalist known for his long-time reporting and a series of books on China and Germany. His Chinese name is Zhang Yan (張彦). Johnson writes regularly for The New York Review of Books and The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ian_Denis_Johnson_(cropped-1).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1962-07-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.160909333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ian-johnson.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "يان دينيس جونسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "يان دينيس جونسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Johnson_(writer)"
    title: "Ian Johnson (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BD_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Джонсон, Ян Денис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%B5%D9%86%D9%81)"
    title: "ایان جانسن (مصنف)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%A0%E5%BD%A6_(%E7%BE%8E%E5%9B%BD%E8%AE%B0%E8%80%85)"
    title: "张彦 (美国记者)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5981395"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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