# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adin-ballou
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:25:49.996Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adin-ballou"
name: "Adin Ballou"
slug: "adin-ballou"
description: "Adin Ballou was an American proponent of Christian nonresistance, Christian anarchism, and Christian socialism. He was also an abolitionist and the founder of the Hopedale Community. As well, he was a Christian universalist, specifically a Christian universal restorationist, believing in both universal salvation and the existence of punishment in the afterlife. He was also a co-founder of the Massachusetts Association of Universal Restorationists."
tagline: "American minister (1803–1890)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Adin_Ballou_cph.3b02632.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1803-04-23"
deathDate: "1890-08-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.561125333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adin_Ballou"
    title: "Adin Ballou"
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    title: "Adin Ballou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adin_Ballou"
    title: "Adin Ballou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Adin Ballou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adin_Ballou"
    title: "Adin Ballou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Adin Ballou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adin_Ballou"
    title: "Adin Ballou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adin_Ballou"
    title: "Adin Ballou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BB%D1%83%2C_%D0%AD%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Баллу, Эдин"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump