# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-mcvicar
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:51:11.117Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-mcvicar"
name: "John McVicar"
slug: "john-mcvicar"
description: "John McVicar was a British journalist and convicted one-time armed robber who escaped from prison."
tagline: "British journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_McVicar_(1981).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1940-03-21"
deathDate: "2022-09-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.96
  momentum:             9.93827160493827
  historical:           4.888848
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McVicar"
    title: "John McVicar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McVicar"
    title: "John McVicar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McVicar"
    title: "John McVicar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McVicar"
    title: "John McVicar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McVicar"
    title: "John McVicar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5982604"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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