# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-humphrys
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:21:04.634Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-humphrys"
name: "John Humphrys"
slug: "john-humphrys"
description: "Desmond John Humphrys is a Welsh broadcaster. From 1981 to 1987 he was the main presenter of the Nine O'Clock News, the flagship BBC News television programme, and from 1987 until 2019 he presented on the BBC Radio 4 breakfast programme Today. He was the host of the BBC Two television quiz show Mastermind from 2003 to 2021, for a total of 735 episodes. Humphrys now presents a regular Sunday afternoon show on Classic FM, where he also sometimes fills in on the weekday More Music Breakfast show."
tagline: "British broadcaster, journalist and author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JohnHumphrys.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1943-08-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.43
  momentum:             10
  historical:           9.061288
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0402103/"
    handle:    "nm0402103"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%85%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "جون همفريز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%85%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "جون همفريز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Humphrys"
    title: "John Humphrys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Humphrys"
    title: "John Humphrys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Humphrys"
    title: "John Humphrys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Humphrys"
    title: "John Humphrys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Хамфрис, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Humphrys"
    title: "John Humphrys"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Humphrys"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1770803"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1543180"
    title: "John Humphrys"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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