# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-brunton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:48:56.245Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-brunton"
name: "Paul Brunton"
slug: "paul-brunton"
description: "Paul Brunton is the pen name and later the real name of Hyman Raphael Hurst, a British philosopher, author of spiritual books, journalist and traveler. He is best known as one of the early popularizers of Neo-Hindu spiritualism in western esotericism, notably via his bestselling A Search in Secret India (1934) which has been translated into over 20 languages."
tagline: "British philosopher (1898-1981)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1898-10-21"
deathDate: "1981-07-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump