# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfie-kohn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:08:42.057Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfie-kohn"
name: "Alfie Kohn"
slug: "alfie-kohn"
description: "Alfie Kohn is an American author and lecturer in the areas of education, parenting, and human behavior. He is a proponent of progressive education and has offered critiques of many traditional aspects of parenting, managing, and American society more generally, drawing in each case from social science research."
tagline: "American author and lecturer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alfie_Kohn.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957-10-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.74
  momentum:             4.421052631578948
  historical:           7.242984
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/alfiekohn"
    handle:    "alfiekohn"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.alfiekohn.org/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfie_Kohn"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%81%D9%8A_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ألفي كون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfie_Kohn"
    title: "Alfie Kohn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfie_Kohn"
    title: "Alfie Kohn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%99_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "אלפי קון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%8C%ED%94%BC_%EC%BD%98"
    title: "알피 콘"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfie_Kohn"
    title: "Alfie Kohn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%84%D0%B8_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4721929"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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