# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-cope
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:52:12.163Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-cope"
name: "John Cope"
slug: "john-cope"
description: "Lieutenant-General Sir John Cope was a British Army officer and Whig politician. He is now chiefly remembered for his defeat at Prestonpans, the first significant battle of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and which was commemorated by the tune \"Hey, Johnnie Cope, Are Ye Waking Yet?\", which still features in modern Scottish folk music and bagpipe recitals."
tagline: "British Army general (1690-1760)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sir_John_Cope.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1690"
deathDate: "1760"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.81
  momentum:             3.040434782608695
  historical:           6.367029333333334
  currentAttention:     7.440000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cope"
    title: "John Cope"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cope_(General)"
    title: "John Cope (General)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cope_(British_Army_officer)"
    title: "John Cope (British Army officer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%BE"
    title: "جان کوپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cope_(g%C3%A9n%C3%A9ral)"
    title: "John Cope (général)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Ginear%C3%A1l_Iain_Cope"
    title: "An Ginearál Iain Cope"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Seanalair_Iain_Cope"
    title: "An Seanalair Iain Cope"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333803"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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