# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-plessington
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:42:28.301Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-plessington"
name: "John Plessington"
slug: "john-plessington"
description: "John Plessington, also known as John Plesington, William Scarisbrick and William Pleasington, was an English Catholic priest who was executed by the English Crown for violating the ban on the presence of Catholic priests in the kingdom. He is now venerated as a saint, honored as one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales."
tagline: "English martyr"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Saint-john-plessington.png/330px-Saint-john-plessington.png"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1636"
deathDate: "1679-07-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.74
  momentum:             5.853658536585366
  historical:           7.473146666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yohane_Plessington"
    title: "Yohane Plessington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جون بليسينجتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Plessington"
    title: "John Plessington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Plessington"
    title: "John Plessington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Plessington"
    title: "Jean Plessington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Plessington"
    title: "John Plessington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Plessington"
    title: "John Plessington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Jan_Plessington"
    title: "Wilhelm Jan Plessington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1n_Plessington"
    title: "Ján Plessington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q678498"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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