# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-james-cowperthwaite
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:30:36.012Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-james-cowperthwaite"
name: "John James Cowperthwaite"
slug: "john-james-cowperthwaite"
description: "Sir John James Cowperthwaite, KBE, CMG, was a British civil servant who served as Financial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1961 to 1971. His introduction of free-market economic policies are widely credited with turning postwar Hong Kong into a thriving global financial centre. During Cowperthwaite's tenure as Financial Secretary, real wages in Hong Kong rose by 50%, and the portion of the population in acute poverty fell from 50% to 15%."
tagline: "British colonial administrator (1915-2006)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/41/John_James_Cowperthwaite.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1915-04-25"
deathDate: "2006-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.39
  momentum:             4.123314065510598
  historical:           7.919442666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "جیمز جان کاوپرتویت"
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    title: "ಸರ್ ಜಾನ್ ಕಾಪರ್ತ್ ವೇತ್"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John James Cowperthwaite"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump