# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laurence-housman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:16:06.393Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laurence-housman"
name: "Laurence Housman"
slug: "laurence-housman"
description: "Laurence Housman was an English playwright, writer and illustrator whose career stretched from the 1890s to the 1950s. He studied art in London and worked largely as an illustrator during the first years of his career, before shifting focus to writing. He was a younger brother of the poet A. E. Housman and his sister and fellow activist in the women's suffrage movement was writer/illustrator Clemence Housman."
tagline: "British playwright, writer and illustrator (1865–1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Laurence_Housman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1865-07-18"
deathDate: "1959-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.28
  momentum:             2.439024390243902
  historical:           8.754825333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0396771/"
    handle:    "nm0396771"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3a090b86-c665-4da7-81fb-ad0986200aa9"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Housman"
    title: "Laurence Housman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Housman"
    title: "Laurence Housman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%86"
    title: "لارنس هاوسمن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Housman"
    title: "Laurence Housman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Housman"
    title: "Laurence Housman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Housman"
    title: "Laurence Housman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Housman"
    title: "Laurence Housman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8A%B3%E4%BC%A6%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E8%B1%AA%E6%96%AF%E6%9B%BC"
    title: "劳伦斯·豪斯曼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2884308"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3120389"
    title: "Laurence Housman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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