# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-reith-1st-baron-reith
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:42:52.808Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-reith-1st-baron-reith"
name: "John Reith, 1st Baron Reith"
slug: "john-reith-1st-baron-reith"
description: "John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom. In 1922, he was employed by the BBC, then the British Broadcasting Company Ltd., as its general manager; in 1923 he became its managing director, and in 1927 he was employed as the Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation created under a royal charter. His concept of broadcasting as a way of educating the masses marked for a long time the BBC and similar organisations around the world."
tagline: "British broadcasting executive and politician (1889–1971)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_John_Reith%2C_1st_Baron_Reith%2C_1925_(by_Olive_Edis)_%E2%80%93_National_Portrait_Gallery%2C_London.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1889-07-20"
deathDate: "1971-06-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.653543307086614
  historical:           11.74626266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2618114/"
    handle:    "nm2618114"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Reith, 1st Baron Reith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Reith (1er baron Reith)"
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    title: "John Reith"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump