# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-morris
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:23:42.968Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-morris"
name: "Jan Morris"
slug: "jan-morris"
description: "Catharine Jan Morris was a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. She was known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy (1968–1978), a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, including Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong and New York City. She published under her birth name until 1972, when she had gender reassignment surgery, transitioning from male to female."
tagline: "Welsh historian, author and travel writer (1926–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_Morris_(1975).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "trans woman"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1926-10-02"
deathDate: "2020-11-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.25
  momentum:             10
  historical:           19.39887466666667
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0606621/"
    handle:    "nm0606621"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jan Morris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jan Morris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jan Morris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jan Morris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jan Morris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jan Morris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Յան Մորիս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jan Morris"
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    title: "Jan Morris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jan Morris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jan Morris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Моррис, Ян"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Morris"
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    title: "珍·莫里斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump