# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilbur-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:10:13.073Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilbur-smith"
name: "Wilbur Smith"
slug: "wilbur-smith"
description: "Wilbur Addison Smith was a Rhodesian-born British-South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries."
tagline: "South African novelist (1933–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wilbur_Smith_in_Sydney.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1933-01-09"
deathDate: "2021-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     80
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump