# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-barnfield
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:04:35.077Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-barnfield"
name: "Richard Barnfield"
slug: "richard-barnfield"
description: "Richard Barnfield was an English poet. His relationship with William Shakespeare has long made him interesting to scholars. It has been suggested that he was the \"rival poet\" mentioned in Shakespeare's sonnets."
tagline: "English poet"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1574"
deathDate: "1627"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.79
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.214652
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5f8fcee6-00f4-4927-97e2-18e6bbc45fb9"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Barnfield"
    title: "Richard Barnfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Barnfield"
    title: "Richard Barnfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Barnfield"
    title: "Richard Barnfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Barnfield"
    title: "Richard Barnfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Barnfield"
    title: "Richard Barnfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Barnfield"
    title: "Richard Barnfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Barnfield"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q684646"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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