# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johnny-gruelle
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:36:18.723Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johnny-gruelle"
name: "Johnny Gruelle"
slug: "johnny-gruelle"
description: "John Barton Gruelle was an American artist, political cartoonist, children's book and comics author, illustrator, and storyteller. He is best known as the creator of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dolls and as the author/illustrator of dozens of books. He also created the Beloved Belindy doll. Gruelle also contributed cartoons and illustrations to at least ten newspapers, four major news syndicates, and more than a dozen national magazines. He was the son of Hoosier Group painter Richard Gruelle."
tagline: "American artist and author"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/Johnny_Gruelle_portrait.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1880-12-24"
deathDate: "1938-01-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.05
  momentum:             13.02521008403361
  historical:           6.86624
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0344384/"
    handle:    "nm0344384"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Gruelle"
    title: "Johnny Gruelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Gruelle"
    title: "Johnny Gruelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Gruelle"
    title: "Johnny Gruelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Gruelle"
    title: "Johnny Gruelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8"
    title: "Грулл, Джонни"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Gruelle"
    title: "Johnny Gruelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C_%DA%AF%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%84"
    title: "جانی گروئل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6266817"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2065035"
    title: "Johnny Gruelle"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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