# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-pilger
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:58:45.739Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-pilger"
name: "John Pilger"
slug: "john-pilger"
description: "John Richard Pilger was an Australian journalist, writer, scholar and documentary filmmaker. From 1962, he was based mainly in Britain. He was also a visiting professor at Cornell University in New York."
tagline: "Australian journalist (1939–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Pilger_in_August_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1939-10-09"
deathDate: "2023-12-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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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