# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-l-bell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:50:18.811Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-l-bell"
name: "John L. Bell"
slug: "john-l-bell"
description: "John Lamberton Bell is a Scottish hymn-writer and Church of Scotland minister. He is a member of the Iona Community, a broadcaster, and former student activist. He works throughout the world, lecturing in theological colleges in the UK, Canada and the United States, but is primarily concerned with the renewal of congregational worship at the grass roots level."
tagline: "British hymnwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_L_Bell_20091018.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1949-11-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.23
  momentum:             1.312
  historical:           5.292118666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Bell"
    title: "John L. Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A5%D9%84._%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "جون إل. بيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Bell"
    title: "John L. Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/257b9c2a-fceb-43c1-9f5d-8e40942cdc49"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Bell"
    title: "John L. Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Bell"
    title: "John L. Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5569336"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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