# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jef-murray
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:02:19.016Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jef-murray"
name: "Jef Murray"
slug: "jef-murray"
description: "Jeffrey Patrick Murray was an American fantasy artist and author best known for his illustrations of works by J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. His paintings, illustrations, stories, poems, and essays appear regularly in Tolkien and Inklings-oriented \npublications and in Catholic publications worldwide. He was Artist-in-Residence for the St. Austin Review, and was artist guest of honor at the 2006 Gathering of the Fellowship in Toronto along with Ted Nasmith. He was nominated for an Imperishable Flame award in \n2006, and his work has been exhibited in the USA, Canada, the UK, and the Netherlands."
tagline: "British artist (1960–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jef_Murray2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1960-03-17"
deathDate: "2015-08-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.21
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.602736
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Murray"
    title: "Jef Murray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Murray"
    title: "Jef Murray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Murray"
    title: "Jef Murray"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%81_%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%92"
    title: "جیف مرے"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jef_Murray"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102128"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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