# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-simpson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:13:56.867Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-simpson"
name: "John Simpson"
slug: "john-simpson"
description: "John Cody Fidler-Simpson is an English foreign correspondent who is currently the world affairs editor of BBC News. He holds dual British-Irish citizenship. He has spent all his working life with the BBC, and has reported from more than 120 countries, including thirty war zones, and interviewed many world leaders. He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read English and was editor of Granta magazine."
tagline: "English journalist, born 1944"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Simpson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1944-08-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.62
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.206321333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0801057/"
    handle:    "nm0801057"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6e3c277b-bbea-4fe2-8479-05c0293e6fab"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%BE%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جون سيمپسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Simpson_(journalist)"
    title: "John Simpson (journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%BE%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جان سیمپسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Simpson"
    title: "John Simpson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Simpson"
    title: "John Simpson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8215122"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/73112"
    title: "John Simpson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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