# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-banks
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:58:20.150Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-banks"
name: "John Banks"
slug: "john-banks"
description: "John Banks (1650–1706) was an English playwright of the Restoration era. His works concentrated on historical dramas, and his plays were twice suppressed because of their implications, or supposed implications, for the contemporaneous political situation."
tagline: "English playwright"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/John_Banks%2C_Vertue_Betray%27d_or_Anna_Bullen_%281692%29.jpg/330px-John_Banks%2C_Vertue_Betray%27d_or_Anna_Bullen_%281692%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1652"
deathDate: "1706"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.76
  momentum:             3.898305084745763
  historical:           4.136285333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Banks_(playwright)"
    title: "John Banks (playwright)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Banks"
    title: "John Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Banks"
    title: "John Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Banks"
    title: "John Banks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3180991"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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