# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-galt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:48:30.217Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-galt"
name: "John Galt"
slug: "john-galt"
description: "John Galt was a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator. Galt has been called the first political novelist in the English language, due to being the first novelist to deal with issues of the Industrial Revolution."
tagline: "Scottish writer (1779-1839)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Galt_-_Charles_Grey_1835_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1779-05-02"
deathDate: "1839-04-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.74
  momentum:             3.028488962531402
  historical:           12.0648
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA_(%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A)"
    title: "جون غالت (روائي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA_(%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%86%DB%8C)"
    title: "جان قالت (رومانچی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt"
    title: "John Galt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt"
    title: "John Galt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt_(novelist)"
    title: "John Galt (novelist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt_(novelista)"
    title: "John Galt (novelista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt"
    title: "John Galt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt_(romancier)"
    title: "John Galt (romancier)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt_(scrittore)"
    title: "John Galt (scrittore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt"
    title: "John Galt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_(%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C)"
    title: "Голт, Джон (писатель)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt"
    title: "John Galt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82_(%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA)"
    title: "Джон Голт (письменник)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1642740"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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