# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/virgil-finlay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:22:35.584Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/virgil-finlay"
name: "Virgil Finlay"
slug: "virgil-finlay"
description: "Virgil Finlay was an American pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator. He has been called \"part of the pulp magazine history ... one of the foremost contributors of original and imaginative art work for the most memorable science fiction and fantasy publications of our time.\" While he worked in a range of media, from gouache to oils, Finlay specialized in, and became famous for, detailed pen-and-ink drawings accomplished with abundant stippling, cross-hatching, and scratchboard techniques. Despite the very labor-intensive and time-consuming nature of his specialty, Finlay created more than 2600 works of graphic art in his 35-year career."
tagline: "American pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator (1914–1971)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Virgil_Finlay%2C_December_1952.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1914-07-23"
deathDate: "1971-01-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.43
  momentum:             3.417721518987342
  historical:           10.70414266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Virgil Finlay"
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    title: "Virgil Finlay"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Finlay"
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    title: "Вьорджил Фінлі"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump