# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-hegley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:58:28.034Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-hegley"
name: "John Hegley"
slug: "john-hegley"
description: "John Richard Hegley is an English performance poet, comedian, radio broadcaster, musician and songwriter.\nHe is known for wry and surreal humour, mostly performance-oriented or aimed at younger audiences, and often sung or accompanied by music he himself plays; his material incorporates \"a mix of anecdotes, jokes, idiosyncratic observations, confessions and surreal narratives\"."
tagline: "British writer, musician and comedian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JohnHegley2002.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Comedians"
  slug: "comedians"
profileType:
  name: "Comedian"
  slug: "comedian"
birthDate: "1953-10-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.294854666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1554706/"
    handle:    "nm1554706"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1070138"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "جون هيجلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hegley"
    title: "John Hegley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hegley"
    title: "John Hegley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hegley"
    title: "John Hegley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hegley"
    title: "John Hegley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Hegley"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9c04d70b-ecbe-4460-9101-080050246178"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q348920"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1603993"
    title: "John Hegley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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