# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sawney-bean
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:50:18.647Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sawney-bean"
name: "Sawney Bean"
slug: "sawney-bean"
description: "Alexander \"Sawney\" Bean is a legendary figure, said to have been the head of a 45-member clan in Scotland in the 16th century that murdered and cannibalised over 1,000 people in 25 years. According to the legend, Bean and his clan members were eventually caught by a search party sent by King James VI, and were executed for their heinous crimes."
tagline: "Semi-mythical head of a 48-member clan in 15th- or 16th-century Scotland"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sawney_Beane_and_his_wife_outside_their_cave_in_Scotland._Engraving_by_I._Basire_after_J._Nicholls.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1600"
deathDate: "1600"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.96
  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.98048
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "سوني بين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bean"
    title: "Alexander Bean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sawney Bean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawney_Beane"
    title: "Sawney Beane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawney_Bean"
    title: "Sawney Bean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sawney Bean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ալեքսանդր Բին"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sawney Bean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alexander Bean"
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    title: "Sawney Bean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawney_Bean"
    title: "Sawney Bean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sawney Bean"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump