# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfred-de-grazia
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:19:34.299Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfred-de-grazia"
name: "Alfred de Grazia"
slug: "alfred-de-grazia"
description: "Alfred de Grazia, born in Chicago, Illinois, was a political scientist and author. He developed techniques of computer-based social network analysis in the 1950s, developed new ideas about personal digital archives in the 1970s, and defended the catastrophism thesis of Immanuel Velikovsky."
tagline: "American political scientist (1919-2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Capt.Alfred_de_Grazia_at_Dachau_concentration_camp%2C_ca_May_1st_1945.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1919-12-29"
deathDate: "2014-07-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.63
  momentum:             1.126760563380282
  historical:           5.275198666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Alfred de Grazia"
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    title: "الفريد دى جرازيا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_de_Grazia"
    title: "Alfred de Grazia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_de_Grazia"
    title: "Alfred de Grazia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_de_Grazia"
    title: "Alfred de Grazia"
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  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%90%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%AB%E0%A9%8D%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%A1_%E0%A8%A1%E0%A9%80_%E0%A8%97%E0%A9%8D%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%9C%E0%A8%BC%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%86"
    title: "ਐਲਫ੍ਰੇਡ ਡੀ ਗ੍ਰਾਜ਼ੀਆ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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