# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-ceiriog-hughes
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:11:51.993Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-ceiriog-hughes"
name: "John Ceiriog Hughes"
slug: "john-ceiriog-hughes"
description: "John Ceiriog Hughes was a Welsh poet and collector of Welsh folk tunes, sometimes termed a Robert Burns of Wales. He was born at Penybryn Farm, overlooking the village of Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog in the Ceiriog Valley of north-east Wales, then in Denbighshire, now part of Wrexham County Borough. One of eight children, he was a favourite of his mother, Phoebe, a midwife and herbal-medicine expert."
tagline: "Welsh poet (1832-1887)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_John_Ceiriog_Hughes_(4674472).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1832-09-25"
deathDate: "1887-04-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.01
  momentum:             0.4395604395604396
  historical:           4.20684
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ceiriog_Hughes"
    title: "John Ceiriog Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ceiriog_Hughes"
    title: "John Ceiriog Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ceiriog_Hughes"
    title: "John Ceiriog Hughes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/88547d40-3d55-4d1c-85a6-d8ff66fc9927"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1879604"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13639581"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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