# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/w-e-johns
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:39:29.748Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/w-e-johns"
name: "W. E. Johns"
slug: "w-e-johns"
description: "William Earl Johns was an English First World War pilot, and writer of adventure stories, usually written under the pen name Capt. W. E. Johns: best known for creating the fictional air-adventurer Biggles."
tagline: "English pilot and writer of adventure stories (1893–1968)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Biggles%2C_Hertford_blue_plaque.jpg/330px-Biggles%2C_Hertford_blue_plaque.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1893-02-05"
deathDate: "1968-06-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.09
  momentum:             4.308775061632344
  historical:           8.401913333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424373/"
    handle:    "nm0424373"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.E._Johns"
    title: "W.E. Johns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88._%D8%A7%D9%89._%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "دبليو. اى. جونس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Earl_Johns"
    title: "William Earl Johns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Earl_Johns"
    title: "William Earl Johns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._Johns"
    title: "W. E. Johns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Earl_Johns"
    title: "William Earl Johns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Earl_Johns"
    title: "William Earl Johns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.E._Johns"
    title: "W.E. Johns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.E._Johns"
    title: "W.E. Johns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1867018"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1096169"
    title: "W.E. Johns"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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