# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-mccrae
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:32:50.094Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-mccrae"
name: "John McCrae"
slug: "john-mccrae"
description: "Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem \"In Flanders Fields\". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war. His famous poem is a threnody, a genre of lament."
tagline: "Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I (1872-1918)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_McCrae_in_uniform_circa_1914.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1872-11-30"
deathDate: "1918-01-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump