# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-shipton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:18:26.124Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-shipton"
name: "John Shipton"
slug: "john-shipton"
description: "John Shipton is an Australian anti-war activist and architect, best known as the biological father of Julian Assange. He founded the WikiLeaks Party and was involved with the creation of the website WikiLeaks and helped with WikiLeaks for years. He was criticised for meeting with President Bashar al-Assad during a visit to Syria as part of the WikiLeaks Party."
tagline: "Australian activist and builder"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           46.24
  momentum:             10.00967452145671
  historical:           1.590357333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  29
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shipton"
    title: "John Shipton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198369"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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