# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-johnson-q183266
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:59:15.127Z

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name: "Samuel Johnson"
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description: "Samuel Johnson, often called Dr. Johnson, was an English writer and polymath who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The work for which he is best known is his 42,733-entry Dictionary of the English Language (1755). For this and other contributions in and to the English language, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has called him \"arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history\"."
tagline: "English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)"
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birthDate: "1709-09-18"
deathDate: "1784-12-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump