# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-ray
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:10:38.994Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-ray"
name: "Jean Ray"
slug: "jean-ray"
description: "Jean Ray is the best-known pseudonym among the many used by Raymundus Joannes de Kremer, a prolific Belgian (Flemish) writer. Although he wrote journalism, stories for young readers in Dutch by the name John Flanders, and scenarios for comic strips and detective stories, he is best known for his tales of the fantastique written in French under the name Jean Ray. Among speakers of English, he is famous for his macabre novel Malpertuis (1943), which was filmed by Harry Kümel in 1971. He also used the pseudonyms John Flanders, King Ray, Alix R. Bantam and Sailor John, among others."
tagline: "Belgian writer (1887–1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean_Ray.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1887-07-08"
deathDate: "1964-09-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.09
  momentum:             0.04424778761061948
  historical:           17.14021466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712860/"
    handle:    "nm0712860"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jeanray.be"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_Ray"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "جان راي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "جان راى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ray"
    title: "Jean Ray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymundus_Joannes_de_Kremer"
    title: "Raymundus Joannes de Kremer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ray_(author)"
    title: "Jean Ray (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ray"
    title: "Jean Ray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ray"
    title: "Jean Ray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ray_(%C3%A9crivain)"
    title: "Jean Ray (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ray_(ekriven)"
    title: "Jean Ray (ekriven)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BA%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%8C%D5%A5%D5%B5"
    title: "Ժան Ռեյ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ray_(scrittore)"
    title: "Jean Ray (scrittore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ジャン・レー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Flanders"
    title: "John Flanders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ray"
    title: "Jean Ray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ray"
    title: "Jean Ray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%B9"
    title: "Жан Рей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ray"
    title: "Jean Ray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%B9_(%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA)"
    title: "Жан Рей (письменник)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vls.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Flanders"
    title: "John Flanders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q767437"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/136014"
    title: "Jean Ray"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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