# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-burningham
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:02:06.226Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-burningham"
name: "John Burningham"
slug: "john-burningham"
description: "John Burningham was an English author and illustrator of picture books for young children. He lived in north London with his wife Helen Oxenbury, another illustrator. His last published work was a husband-and-wife collaboration, There's Going to Be a New Baby, written by John and illustrated by Helen for \"ages 2+\"."
tagline: "British children's illustrator and writer (1936–2019)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-04-27"
deathDate: "2019-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.02
  momentum:             0.4663212435233159
  historical:           10.76353733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1602029/"
    handle:    "nm1602029"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://johnburningham.com/biography/"
sources:
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    title: "約翰·伯寧罕"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burningham"
    title: "John Burningham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burningham"
    title: "John Burningham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burningham"
    title: "John Burningham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burningham"
    title: "John Burningham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burningham"
    title: "John Burningham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8B%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AC%E3%83%A0"
    title: "ジョン・バーニンガム"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B4_%EB%B2%84%EB%8B%9D%ED%96%84"
    title: "존 버닝햄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burningham"
    title: "John Burningham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burningham"
    title: "John Burningham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burningham"
    title: "John Burningham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burningham"
    title: "John Burningham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937729"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2888352"
    title: "John Burningham"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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