# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-whitcomb-riley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:19:44.194Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-whitcomb-riley"
name: "James Whitcomb Riley"
slug: "james-whitcomb-riley"
description: "James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the \"Hoosier Poet\" and \"Childrens' Poet\" for his dialect works and his poetry for children. His poems tend to be humorous or sentimental. Of the approximately 1,000 poems Riley wrote, the majority are in dialect. His famous works include \"Little Orphant Annie\" and \"The Raggedy Man\"."
tagline: "American poet from Indianapolis (1849–1916)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Whitcomb_Riley%2C_1913.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1849-10-07"
deathDate: "1916-07-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.33
  momentum:             0.7330219187926699
  historical:           14.57419866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0727058"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump