# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-barbour
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:44:13.374Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-barbour"
name: "John Barbour"
slug: "john-barbour"
description: "John Barbour was a Scottish poet and the first major named literary figure to write in Scots. His principal surviving work is the historical verse romance, The Brus, and his reputation from this poem is such that other long works in Scots which survive from the period are sometimes thought to be by him. He is known to have written a number of other works, but other titles definitely ascribed to his authorship, such as The Stewartis Oryginalle and The Brut (Brutus), are now lost."
tagline: "Scottish poet (c.1320 – 1395)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Memorial_to_John_Barbour%2C_St_Machar's_Cathedral.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1316"
deathDate: "1395-03-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.84
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.423652
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barbour_(poet)"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barbour_(poeto)"
    title: "John Barbour (poeto)"
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    title: "John Barbour"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barbour"
    title: "John Barbour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barbour"
    title: "John Barbour"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barbour"
    title: "John Barbour"
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    title: "John Barbour"
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    title: "John Barbour"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barbour"
    title: "John Barbour"
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    title: "Барбор, Джон"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump