# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-tarlton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:29:30.950Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-tarlton"
name: "Richard Tarlton"
slug: "richard-tarlton"
description: "Richard Tarlton was an English actor of the Elizabethan era. He was the most famous clown of his era, known for his extempore comic doggerel verse, which came to be known as \"Tarltons\". He helped to turn Elizabethan theatre into a form of mass entertainment, paving the way for the Shakespearean stage. After his death many witticisms and pranks were attributed to him and were published as Tarlton's Jests."
tagline: "British actor and clown of the Elizabethan era"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Tarlton_Pipe_Tabor_c1580s.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1530"
deathDate: "1588-09-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.764401333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tarlton"
    title: "Richard Tarlton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tarlton"
    title: "Richard Tarlton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tarlton"
    title: "Richard Tarlton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tarlton"
    title: "Richard Tarlton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tarlton"
    title: "Richard Tarlton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Тарлтон, Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tarlton"
    title: "Richard Tarlton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31241"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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