# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wes-ball
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:13:43.851Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wes-ball"
name: "Wes Ball"
slug: "wes-ball"
description: "Wes Ball is an American film director, producer, and visual effects artist. He directed the Maze Runner trilogy (2014–2018), based on the series of novels by James Dashner, as well as Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024), the fourth film in the Planet of the Apes reboot series."
tagline: "American film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wes_Ball_(14758598956).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1980-10-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.67288533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "wesball"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1226871/"
    handle:    "nm1226871"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wes Ball"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wes Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wes Ball"
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    title: "Wes Ball"
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    title: "Wes Ball"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "เวส บอล"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Wes Ball"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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