# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-gibson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:33:04.443Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-gibson"
name: "Ian Gibson"
slug: "ian-gibson"
description: "Ian Gibson is an Irish author and Hispanist known for his biographies of the poet Antonio Machado, the artist Salvador Dalí, the bibliographer Henry Spencer Ashbee, the filmmaker Luis Buñuel, and particularly his work on the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, for which he won several awards, including the 1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. His work, La represión nacionalista de Granada en 1936 y la muerte de Federico García Lorca was banned in Spain under Franco."
tagline: "Irish-Spanish historian, hispanist, biographer, and screenwriter (born 1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ian_Gibson_FLM2019-1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-04-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.91
  momentum:             16.43997634535778
  historical:           11.139284
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0316997/"
    handle:    "nm0316997"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Gibson"
    title: "Ian Gibson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ايان جيبسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ian Gibson"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Gibson"
    title: "Ian Gibson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Gibson_(author)"
    title: "Ian Gibson (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Gibson"
    title: "Ian Gibson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Gibson"
    title: "Ian Gibson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Gibson_(auteur)"
    title: "Ian Gibson (auteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Gibson"
    title: "Ian Gibson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Gibson"
    title: "Ian Gibson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Gibson"
    title: "Ian Gibson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Gibson"
    title: "Ian Gibson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2739768"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1627055"
    title: "Ian Gibson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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