# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-cairney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:04:47.906Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-cairney"
name: "John Cairney"
slug: "john-cairney"
description: "John Cairney was a Scottish stage, film and television actor who found fame through his one-man shows on Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Service, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and William McGonagall."
tagline: "British actor, recitalist, lecturer, director and theatre consultant, published author, exhibited painter (1930-2023)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/Publicity_shot_of_John_Cairney_as_Robert_Burns_1965_resize.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1930-02-16"
deathDate: "2023-09-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.42
  momentum:             9.16243654822335
  historical:           6.88154
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0129055/"
    handle:    "nm0129055"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2933124"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "جون كايرنى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cairney"
    title: "John Cairney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cairney"
    title: "John Cairney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B4_%EC%BC%80%EC%96%B4%EB%8B%88"
    title: "존 케어니"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cairney"
    title: "John Cairney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "جان کیرنی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Cairney"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1699517"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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