# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-drayton
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:40:32.623Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-drayton"
name: "Michael Drayton"
slug: "michael-drayton"
description: "Michael Drayton was an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era, continuing to write through the reign of James I and into the reign of Charles I. Many of his works consisted of historical poetry. He was also the first English-language author to write odes in the style of Horace. He died in 1631 in London."
tagline: "English poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Michael_Drayton_by_Sylvester_Harding.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1563"
deathDate: "1631-12-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.77635333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump