# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-elliot
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:01:09.098Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-elliot"
name: "Jean Elliot"
slug: "jean-elliot"
description: "Jean Elliot, also known as Jane Elliot, was a Scottish poet. She wrote one of the most famous versions of The Flowers of the Forest, a song lamenting the Scottish army's defeat in the Battle of Flodden. Published in 1776, it is her only surviving work. The lyrics are set to an earlier tune c. 1615–1625 in the John Skene of Halyards Manuscript as \"Flowres of the Forrest.\""
tagline: "Scottish poet"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1727"
deathDate: "1805-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.64
  momentum:             8.866666666666665
  historical:           4.605292
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "جان إليوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "جان اليوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Elliot"
    title: "Jean Elliot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Elliot"
    title: "Jean Elliot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4946507"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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