# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stan-cross
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:21:33.440Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stan-cross"
name: "Stan Cross"
slug: "stan-cross"
description: "Stanley George Cross was born in the United States but was known as an Australian strip and political cartoonist who drew for Smith's Weekly and the Herald & Weekly Times. Cross is famous for his iconic 1933 \"For gorsake, stop laughing: this is serious!” cartoon as well as the Wally and the Major and The Potts cartoon strips."
tagline: "Australian cartoonist (1888–1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Stan_Cross_1935.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1888-12-03"
deathDate: "1977-06-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.58
  momentum:             0.7407407407407407
  historical:           3.936465333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "ستان كروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "ستان كروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Cross"
    title: "Stan Cross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Cross"
    title: "Stan Cross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7597601"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump