# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-hay-beith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:20:28.774Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-hay-beith"
name: "John Hay Beith"
slug: "john-hay-beith"
description: "Major-General John Hay Beith, CBE MC was a British schoolmaster and soldier, but is best remembered as a novelist, playwright, essayist, and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay."
tagline: "British writer and historian (1876–1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ian-Hay-Beith.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1876-04-17"
deathDate: "1952-09-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.09
  momentum:             2.136363636363636
  historical:           6.209612
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0067308/"
    handle:    "nm0067308"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e959ecb5-33ac-427e-9418-62a94439031f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "جون هاى بيث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA"
    title: "جان هی بایت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%BF%CE%BD_%CE%A7%CE%AD%CE%B9_%CE%9C%CF%80%CE%B9%CE%B8"
    title: "Τζον Χέι Μπιθ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hay_Beith"
    title: "John Hay Beith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hay_Beith"
    title: "John Hay Beith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hay_Beith"
    title: "John Hay Beith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Hay_Beith"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q338543"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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