# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-kirby
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:22:30.381Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-kirby"
name: "John Kirby"
slug: "john-kirby"
description: "John Joseph Kirby Jr. was an American attorney. He was most notable for his successful defense for Nintendo against Universal Studios over the copyrightability of the character Donkey Kong in 1984, from which Nintendo subsequently named the character Kirby to honor him."
tagline: "American lawyer (1939-2019)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1939-10-22"
deathDate: "2019-10-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.1
  momentum:             2.503552818569398
  historical:           10.65671066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 161
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BA%A6%E7%BF%B0%C2%B7%E5%8D%A1%E6%AF%94"
    title: "约翰·卡比"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%89_(%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%89)"
    title: "جون كيربى (محامى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kirby"
    title: "John Kirby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kirby_(attorney)"
    title: "John Kirby (attorney)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kirby_(abogado)"
    title: "John Kirby (abogado)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kirby_(avocat)"
    title: "John Kirby (avocat)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kirby"
    title: "John Kirby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%93%E3%82%A3"
    title: "ジョン・カービィ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B4_%EC%BB%A4%EB%B9%84_(%EB%B3%80%ED%98%B8%EC%82%AC)"
    title: "존 커비 (변호사)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Kirby_Jr."
    title: "John J. Kirby Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%91%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B8%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_(%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82)"
    title: "Кёрби, Джон (адвокат)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kirby_(lawyer)"
    title: "John Kirby (lawyer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6243189"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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