# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-eberson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:16:00.253Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-eberson"
name: "John Eberson"
slug: "john-eberson"
description: "John Adolph Emil Eberson was an Austrian-American architect best known for the development and promotion of movie palace designs in the atmospheric theatre style. He designed over 500 theatres in his lifetime, earning the nickname \"Opera House John\". His most notable surviving theatres in the United States include the Tampa Theatre (1926), Palace Theatre Marion (1928), Palace Theatre Louisville (1928), Majestic Theatre (1929), Akron Civic Theatre (1929), the Paramount Theatre (1929), the State Theater 1927, and the Lewis J. Warner Memorial Theater (1932) at Worcester Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts. Remaining international examples in the atmospheric style include both the Capitol Theatre (1928) and State Theatre (1929) in Sydney, Australia, The Forum and Le Grand Rex."
tagline: "American architect (1875–1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eberson_Head_1912.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Architects"
  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1875"
deathDate: "1964"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.46
  momentum:             0.7495429616087752
  historical:           5.687834666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eberson"
    title: "John Eberson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جون ابيرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eberson"
    title: "John Eberson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%95%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Джон Еберсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جان ابرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Эберсон, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1699918"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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