# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vernon-watkins
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:00:45.849Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vernon-watkins"
name: "Vernon Watkins"
slug: "vernon-watkins"
description: "Vernon Phillips Watkins was a Welsh poet and translator. He was a close friend of fellow poet Dylan Thomas, who described him as \"the most profound and greatly accomplished Welshman writing poems in English\"."
tagline: "Welsh poet (1906–1967)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/08/Vernon_Watkins%2C_28th_July_1967.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1906-06-27"
deathDate: "1967-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.43
  momentum:             6.193732193732194
  historical:           6.81548
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2052015"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "ڤيرنون واتكينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Watkins"
    title: "Vernon Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Watkins"
    title: "Vernon Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Watkins"
    title: "Vernon Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Watkins"
    title: "Vernon Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Phillips_Watkins"
    title: "Vernon Phillips Watkins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/32ab46dc-c349-4871-9853-92a7d945b50e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q325437"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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