# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jin-yong
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:37:08.984Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jin-yong"
name: "Jin Yong"
slug: "jin-yong"
description: "Louis Cha Leung-yung, better known by his pen name Jin Yong, was a Chinese wuxia novelist and co-founder of Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao. Cha authored 15 novels between 1955 and 1972 and became one of the most popular Chinese writers of all time, with over 100 million copies sold globally—excluding widespread pirated editions. Cha's novels, which have been adapted into numerous TV dramas, films, and video games, are esteemed for their literary quality and universal appeal, resonating with both scholarly and popular audiences."
tagline: "Hong Kong writer (1924-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jin_Yong%2C_July_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1924-03-10"
deathDate: "2018-10-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.308642083344381
  historical:           23.96291333333334
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  249
  category: null
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    handle:    "nm0149222"
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    url:       "https://www.jinyong.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump