# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-carlin
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:41:43.380Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-carlin"
name: "John Carlin"
slug: "john-carlin"
description: "John Carlin is a British journalist and author, who deals with both sports and politics. His book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation, about former South African president Nelson Mandela, is the basis for the 2009 film Invictus."
tagline: "British journalist and author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Carlin_(journalist)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-05-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.45
  momentum:             0.9521553765987684
  historical:           9.283232
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1985343/"
    handle:    "nm1985343"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.johncarlin.eu"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%86"
    title: "جون كارلن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%86"
    title: "جون كارلن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "جان کارلین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carlin"
    title: "John Carlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carlin_(journalist)"
    title: "John Carlin (journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carlin"
    title: "John Carlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "جان کارلین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carlin_(journaliste)"
    title: "John Carlin (journaliste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carlin"
    title: "John Carlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Carlin"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1231024"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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