# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-nevil-maskelyne
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:24:53.382Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-nevil-maskelyne"
name: "John Nevil Maskelyne"
slug: "john-nevil-maskelyne"
description: "John Nevil Maskelyne was an English stage magician and inventor of the pay toilet, along with other Victorian-era devices. He worked with magicians George Alfred Cooke and David Devant, and many of his illusions are still performed today. His book Sharps and Flats: A Complete Revelation of the Secrets of Cheating at Games of Chance and Skill is considered a classic overview of card sharp practices. In 1914 he founded the Occult Committee, a group to \"investigate claims to supernatural power and to expose fraud\"."
tagline: "English inventor and stage magician (1839–1917)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Nevil_Maskelyne.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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birthDate: "1839-12-22"
deathDate: "1917-05-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.985294117647059
  historical:           9.243524
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump