# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-halliburton
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:08:34.798Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-halliburton"
name: "Richard Halliburton"
slug: "richard-halliburton"
description: "Richard Halliburton was an American travel writer and adventurer who, among numerous journeys, swam the length of the Panama Canal and paid the lowest toll in its history, 36 cents, in 1928. He disappeared at sea while attempting to sail the Chinese junk Sea Dragon across the Pacific Ocean from Hong Kong to the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, California."
tagline: "American writer (1900–1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Halliburton_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1900-01-09"
deathDate: "1939-03-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.45720933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0356533/"
    handle:    "nm0356533"
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    title: "Richard Halliburton"
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    title: "Richard Halliburton"
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    title: "Richard Halliburton"
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    title: "Richard Halliburton"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Richard Halliburton"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump