# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ollie-harrington
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:00:26.391Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ollie-harrington"
name: "Ollie Harrington"
slug: "ollie-harrington"
description: "Oliver Wendell Harrington was an American cartoonist of multi-ethnic descent and an outspoken advocate against racism and for civil rights in the United States. Langston Hughes called him \"America's greatest African-American cartoonist\". In 1961, Harrington requested political asylum in East Germany; he lived in Berlin for the last three decades of his life."
tagline: "American cartoonist (1912–1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Looked_like_everybody_in_Africa_was_in_there_waitin'_for_us!_LCCN2015649159_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1912-02-14"
deathDate: "1995-11-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.43
  momentum:             7.058823529411764
  historical:           5.274838666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollie_Harrington"
    title: "Ollie Harrington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Harrington"
    title: "Oliver Harrington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollie_Harrington"
    title: "Ollie Harrington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ollie_Harrington"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollie_Harrington"
    title: "Ollie Harrington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ollie_Harrington"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7088335"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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