# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-astley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:57:55.754Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-astley"
name: "Philip Astley"
slug: "philip-astley"
description: "Philip Astley was an English equestrian, circus owner, and inventor, regarded as being the \"father of the modern circus\". Modern circus, as an integrated entertainment experience that includes music, domesticated animals, acrobats, and clowns, traces its heritage to Astley's Amphitheatre, a riding school that Astley founded in London following the success of trick-riding displays given by him and his wife Patty Jones in 1768. Astley's first competitor was equestrian Charles Hughes, who had previously worked with Astley. Together with Charles Dibdin, a famous author of pantomimes, Hughes opened a rival amphitheatre in London, which Dibdin called the Royal Circus and Equestrian Philharmonic Academy."
tagline: "English equestrian, circus owner, and inventor, regarded as being the \"father of the modern circus\""
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Philip-Astley.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1742-01-08"
deathDate: "1814-01-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.99190533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ֆիլիպ Ասթլեյ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Philip Astley"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump