# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-the-evangelist
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:33:55.229Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-the-evangelist"
name: "John the Evangelist"
slug: "john-the-evangelist"
description: "The name behind the fourth gospel — the one that opens \"In the beginning was the Word\" — though whether he was the apostle, the visionary of Patmos, or someone else entirely remains unresolved after two thousand years."
tagline: "Author of the Gospel of John; traditionally identified with John the Apostle of Jesus, John of Patmos (author of Revelation), and John the Presbyter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Grandes_Heures_Anne_de_Bretagne_Saint_Jean.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IL"
birthDate: "10"
deathDate: "98"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             10
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  currentAttention:     27.75
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  238
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Christian tradition assigns him a life spanning most of the first century, from around 6 AD to 100 AD, and credits him with writing the Gospel of John. Over the centuries he's been folded together with three figures: John the Apostle, who walked with Jesus; John of Patmos, who saw visions; and John the Presbyter, an elder of the early church. No consensus exists on whether all three were one man or several who shared a name. The gospel attributed to him reads differently than the other three — more theological, more cosmic in its framing — and that distinctiveness has kept scribes and scholars arguing about authorship ever since.