# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephen-leather
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:20:32.480Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephen-leather"
name: "Stephen Leather"
slug: "stephen-leather"
description: "Stephen Leather is a British thriller author whose works are published by Hodder & Stoughton. He has written for television shows such as London's Burning, The Knock, and the BBC's Murder in Mind series. He is one of the top selling Amazon Kindle authors, the second bestselling UK author worldwide on Kindle in 2011."
tagline: "British author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stephen_Leather_Profile.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-10-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.455656000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/stephenleather"
    handle:    "stephenleather"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/stephenleatherofficial"
    handle:    "stephenleatherofficial"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0495319/"
    handle:    "nm0495319"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.stephenleather.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B2%E8%92%82%E8%8A%AC%C2%B7%E9%87%8C%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "史蒂芬·里德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AB%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ستيفين لايثير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D1%8A%D0%BD_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%8A%D1%80"
    title: "Стивън Ледър"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Leather"
    title: "Stephen Leather"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Leather"
    title: "Stephen Leather"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Leather"
    title: "Stephen Leather"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Leather"
    title: "Stephen Leather"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Leather"
    title: "Stephen Leather"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Лизер, Стивен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Leather"
    title: "Stephen Leather"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q743057"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1567784"
    title: "Stephen Leather"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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