# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-starkie
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:53:16.345Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-starkie"
name: "Walter Starkie"
slug: "walter-starkie"
description: "Walter Fitzwilliam Starkie CMG, CBE, Litt.D was an Irish scholar, Hispanist, writer, and musician. His reputation is principally based on his popular travel writing: Raggle-Taggle (1933), Spanish Raggle-Taggle (1934) and Don Gypsy (1936)."
tagline: "Irish scholar, expert on the Romani people (1894–1976)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1894-08-09"
deathDate: "1976-11-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.614256
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Starkie"
    title: "Walter Starkie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Starkie"
    title: "Walter Starkie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Starkie"
    title: "Walter Starkie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Starkie"
    title: "Walter Starkie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2897514"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7966187"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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