# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shirley-hughes
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:21:19.422Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shirley-hughes"
name: "Shirley Hughes"
slug: "shirley-hughes"
description: "Winifred Shirley Hughes was an English author and illustrator. She wrote more than fifty books, which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and illustrated more than two hundred."
tagline: "English children's writer and illustrator (1927–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shirley_Hughes.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1927-07-16"
deathDate: "2022-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.37185333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "شيرلى هوجيس"
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    title: "Shirley Hughes"
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    title: "Shirley Hughes"
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    title: "Shirley Hughes"
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    title: "شرلی هیوز"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shirley Hughes"
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    title: "Shirley Hughes"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump