# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-rankin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:10:34.675Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-rankin"
name: "Robert Rankin"
slug: "robert-rankin"
description: "Robert Fleming Rankin is a prolific British author of comedic fantasy novels. Born in Parsons Green, London, he started writing in the late 1970s, and first entered the bestsellers lists with Snuff Fiction in 1999, by which time his previous eighteen books had sold around one million copies. His books are a mix of science fiction, fantasy, the occult, urban legends, running gags, metafiction, steampunk and outrageous characters. According to the biography printed in some Corgi editions of his books, Rankin refers to his style as 'Far Fetched Fiction' in the hope that bookshops will let him have a section to himself. Many of Rankin's books are bestsellers."
tagline: "British author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Rankin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-07-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.713682666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "روبيرت رانكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%8A%D1%80%D1%82_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Робърт Ранкин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fleming_Rankin"
    title: "Robert Fleming Rankin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rankin"
    title: "Robert Rankin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rankin"
    title: "Robert Rankin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82"
    title: "Рэнкин, Роберт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rankin"
    title: "Robert Rankin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/80ec9ea9-bd23-4ed8-a85d-09c52669765e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q321466"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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