# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-handford
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:58:05.323Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-handford"
name: "Martin Handford"
slug: "martin-handford"
description: "Martin Handford is a British children's author and illustrator from London who gained worldwide fame in the mid-1980s for his Where's Wally? book series."
tagline: "Author and illustrator (b. 1956)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-09-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.1
  momentum:             0.7781469625547586
  historical:           11.87866533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "馬丁·韓福特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Handford"
    title: "Martin Handford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Handford"
    title: "Martin Handford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Handford"
    title: "Martin Handford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Handford"
    title: "Martin Handford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%93"
    title: "מרטין הנדפורד"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Handford"
    title: "Martin Handford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89"
    title: "マーティン・ハンドフォード"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%ED%8B%B4_%ED%95%B8%EB%93%9C%ED%8F%AC%EB%93%9C"
    title: "마틴 핸드포드"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Handford"
    title: "Martin Handford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Handford"
    title: "Martin Handford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Handford"
    title: "Martin Handford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D1%96%D0%BD_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Мартін Гендфорд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2532830"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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