# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-winchester
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:09:50.833Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-winchester"
name: "Simon Winchester"
slug: "simon-winchester"
description: "Simon Winchester is a British-American author and journalist. In his career at The Guardian newspaper, Winchester covered numerous significant events, including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal. Winchester has written or contributed to over 30 best-selling nonfiction books, one novel, and several magazines, among them Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian Magazine, and National Geographic."
tagline: "British journalist and popular historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SimonWinchester02.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1944-09-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.03064133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm2278762"
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    url:       "http://www.simonwinchester.com/"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "سيمون وينشستر"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Simon Winchester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Simon Winchester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Winchester"
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    title: "Simon Winchester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Simon Winchester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump