--- name: "Diana Gabaldon" canonical: "https://film.one/person/diana-gabaldon" fi1m_id: "diana-gabaldon" imdb_id: "nm1748442" tmdb_id: 1532773 wikidata_id: "Q272492" roles: ["Writer"] born: "11 January 1952" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "writer" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-22T23:54:01.188493+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Diana Gabaldon ## Identity Diana Gabaldon - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/diana-gabaldon - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** diana-gabaldon - **IMDb ID:** nm1748442 - **TMDB ID:** 1532773 - **Wikidata ID:** Q272492 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Gabaldon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272492, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1748442/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1532773 Writer. Born 11 January 1952 in Williams, Arizona, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Writer - **Born:** 11 January 1952, Williams, Arizona, USA - **Active:** 2014–present - **Frequently works with:** [Danielle Berrow](https://film.one/person/danielle-berrow.md), [Emer Conroy](https://film.one/person/emer-conroy.md), [Jamie Payne](https://film.one/person/jamie-payne.md), [Margot Ye](https://film.one/person/margot-ye.md), [Matthew B. Roberts](https://film.one/person/matthew-b-roberts.md), [Michael O'Halloran](https://film.one/person/michael-ohalloran.md), [Michael Wilson](https://film.one/person/michael-wilson-2368970.md), [Taylor Mallory](https://film.one/person/taylor-mallory.md) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Gabaldon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272492, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1748442/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1532773 ## Streaming the US now - **Hulu:** [*Outlander: Blood of My Blood*](https://film.one/tv/outlander-blood-of-my-blood.md) (68) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Diana Gabaldon is an American novelist and television writer. She was born on 11 January 1952 in Williams, Arizona. She holds degrees in zoology from Northern Arizona University, marine biology from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and a PhD in quantitative behavioral ecology from Northern Arizona University. Before turning to fiction, she worked as a university professor and wrote freelance comic-book scripts for Disney. Gabaldon is best known for the Outlander series of novels, the first of which was published in 1991. The books were adapted into the Starz television series Outlander (2014– ), on which she has also worked as a writer and producer. She is credited as a writer on the prequel series Outlander: Blood of My Blood (2025), which is based on characters from her books. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com, collider.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Outlander: Blood of My Blood* (2025), Fi1m 68, Characters, Writer, Consulting Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/outlander-blood-of-my-blood.md) ## Complete filmography (2) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Outlander: Blood of My Blood* (2025), series, Consulting Producer, Characters, Writer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/outlander-blood-of-my-blood.md) - *Outlander* (2014), series, as Iona MacTavish, Diana Gabaldon (uncredited) · Writer, Book, Creative Consultant ## Gallery - ![Diana Gabaldon](https://film.one/media/person/1292906/gallery-0ee5266cbd30.jpg) Diana Gabaldon — Andreas Pavelic, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Diana_Gabaldon_%282010%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Portrait von Diana Gabaldon aus dem Jahr 2010](https://film.one/media/person/1292906/gallery-3b59bd0c117d.jpg) Portrait von Diana Gabaldon aus dem Jahr 2010 — Andreas Pavelic, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Diana_Gabaldon_%282010%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Picture of the author Diana Gabaldon during a book signing held in Fergus, Ontario (during the Scottish Festival) on August 11, 2007.](https://film.one/media/person/1292906/gallery-0ac5df59393f.png) Picture of the author Diana Gabaldon during a book signing held in Fergus, Ontario (during the Scottish Festival) on August 11, 2007. — User:Captmondo, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/DianaGabaldon-BookSigning-August11-07.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Diana Gabaldon signing books at the 2017 Phoenix Comicon at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.](https://film.one/media/person/1292906/gallery-2670c976f899.jpg) Diana Gabaldon signing books at the 2017 Phoenix Comicon at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Diana_Gabaldon_%2834092510694%29.jpg/1280px-Diana_Gabaldon_%2834092510694%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Author Diana Gabaldon and showrunner Ronald D. Moore at 92nd Street Y for the New York premiere of the first season of the TV series Outlander, which is based o (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/1292906/gallery-4bc04b452580.png) Author Diana Gabaldon and showrunner Ronald D. Moore at 92nd Street Y for the New York premiere of the first season of the TV series Outlander, which is based o (2014) — Christine Ring, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Diana_Gabaldon_2014_in_New_York_%28cropped%29.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Diana Gabaldon speaking at the 2017 Phoenix Comicon in Phoenix, Arizona.](https://film.one/media/person/1292906/gallery-d4ce0875008e.jpg) Diana Gabaldon speaking at the 2017 Phoenix Comicon in Phoenix, Arizona. — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Diana_Gabaldon_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Diana_Gabaldon_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - Locus Award for Best Anthology 2021: Locus Award for Best Anthology (nominated), for *The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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