# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joy-adamson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:26:58.274Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joy-adamson"
name: "Joy Adamson"
slug: "joy-adamson"
description: "Friederike Victoria \"Joy\" Adamson was a naturalist, artist and author. Her book, Born Free, describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. Born Free was printed in several languages and made into an Academy Award–winning movie of the same name. In 1977, she was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art."
tagline: "Austrian-British naturalist, painter, writer, collector and illustrator (1910–1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JoyAdamson%C3%89sElza.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1910-01-20"
deathDate: "1980-01-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.66495466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011499/"
    handle:    "nm0011499"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump