# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-mcbratney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:31:41.834Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-mcbratney"
name: "Sam McBratney"
slug: "sam-mcbratney"
description: "Samuel McBratney was a writer from Northern Ireland. He wrote more than fifty books for children and young adults, and is best known as the author of the best-selling children's book Guess How Much I Love You, which has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, and been translated into 53 languages."
tagline: "Irish children's author (1943-2020)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-03-01"
deathDate: "2020-09-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.12
  momentum:             10
  historical:           7.569986666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1824631"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "سام مكبراتنى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_McBratney"
    title: "Sam McBratney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_McBratney"
    title: "Sam McBratney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%9D_%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%A0%D7%99"
    title: "סם מקברטני"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_McBratney"
    title: "Sam McBratney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_McBratney"
    title: "Sam McBratney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E5%A7%86%C2%B7%E9%BA%A6%E5%85%8B%E5%B8%83%E9%9B%B7%E5%B0%BC"
    title: "山姆·麦克布雷尼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/426cf68c-262f-4670-96bf-27608c9804a6"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11999223"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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