# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-oldham
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:31:42.612Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-oldham"
name: "John Oldham"
slug: "john-oldham"
description: "John Oldham was an English satirical poet and translator. John Dryden, England's first Poet Laureate, was one of his admirers and upon his death wrote an elegy \"To the Memory of Mr. Oldham\"."
tagline: "English satirical poet and translator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Oldham.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1653-08-09"
deathDate: "1683-12-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.05
  momentum:             10.3125
  historical:           3.938265333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Oldham_(poet)"
    title: "John Oldham (poet)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Oldham_(poeta)"
    title: "John Oldham (poeta)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Oldham"
    title: "John Oldham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Oldham_(poet)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4027184"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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