# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-armitage
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:05:44.380Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-armitage"
name: "Simon Armitage"
slug: "simon-armitage"
description: "Simon Robert Armitage is an English poet, playwright, musician and novelist. He was appointed Poet Laureate on 10 May 2019. He is professor of poetry at the University of Leeds."
tagline: "British poet, playwright, and novelist (born 1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Krankenhaus_Simon_Armitage_(48710400372)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1963-05-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             10
  historical:           17.62264666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/simonarmitage_official/"
    handle:    "simonarmitage_official"
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0035516/"
    handle:    "nm0035516"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.simonarmitage.com"
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    title: "Simon Armitage"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Simon Armitage"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump