# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-cleland-q460861
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:31:48.434Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/john-cleland-q460861"
name: "John Cleland"
slug: "john-cleland-q460861"
description: "John Cleland was an English novelist best known for his fictional Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, whose eroticism led to his arrest. James Boswell called him \"a sly, old malcontent\"."
tagline: "British writer (1709-1789)"
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gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1709-09-24"
deathDate: "1789-01-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump