# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/norris-mcwhirter
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:31:11.490Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/norris-mcwhirter"
name: "Norris McWhirter"
slug: "norris-mcwhirter"
description: "Norris Dewar McWhirter was a British writer, right-wing political activist, co-founder of The Freedom Association, and a television presenter. He and his twin brother Ross were known internationally for founding the reference book The Guinness Book of Records which they wrote and updated annually together between 1955 and 1975. After Ross's assassination by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), Norris carried on alone as editor."
tagline: "British writer, political activist and television presenter (1925—2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Norris_McWhirter_(1977).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1925-08-12"
deathDate: "2004-04-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.804978666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris_McWhirter"
    title: "Norris McWhirter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris_McWhirter"
    title: "Norris McWhirter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris_McWhirter"
    title: "Norris McWhirter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3_%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%B9%D8%B1"
    title: "نورس میک وائٹر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris_McWhirter"
    title: "Norris McWhirter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris_McWhirter"
    title: "Norris McWhirter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q320560"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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