# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-mcgough
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:52:06.607Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-mcgough"
name: "Roger McGough"
slug: "roger-mcgough"
description: "Roger Joseph McGough is an English poet, performance poet, broadcaster, children's author and playwright. He presents the BBC Radio 4 programme Poetry Please, as well as performing his own poetry. McGough was one of the leading members of the Liverpool poets, a group of young poets influenced by Beat poetry and the popular music and culture of 1960s Liverpool. He is an honorary fellow of Liverpool John Moores University, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and President of the Poetry Society."
tagline: "British writer and poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roger_McGough.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-11-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.06401866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0569534/"
    handle:    "nm0569534"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.rogermcgough.org.uk/"
sources:
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "راجر مک قاف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Roger McGough"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_McGough"
    title: "Roger McGough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_McGough"
    title: "Roger McGough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Roger McGough"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_McGough"
    title: "Roger McGough"
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    title: "Roger McGough"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_McGough"
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    title: "Roger McGough"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Roger McGough"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump