# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/raymond-briggs
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:54:57.614Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/raymond-briggs"
name: "Raymond Briggs"
slug: "raymond-briggs"
description: "Raymond Redvers Briggs was an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author. Achieving critical and popular success among adults and children, he is best known in Britain for his 1978 story The Snowman, a book without words whose cartoon adaptation is televised and whose musical adaptation is staged every Christmas."
tagline: "English cartoonist, illustrator (1934-2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Strips%2C_schrijvers%2C_kernwapens%2C_Briggs%2C_Raymond%2C_Bestanddeelnr_932-5852_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1934-01-18"
deathDate: "2022-08-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
  category: 199
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump