# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfred-w-mccoy
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:19:33.569Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfred-w-mccoy"
name: "Alfred W. McCoy"
slug: "alfred-w-mccoy"
description: "Alfred William McCoy is an American historian and educator. He is the Fred Harvey Harrington Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He specializes in the history of the Philippines, foreign policy of the United States, European colonisation of Southeast Asia, illegal drug trade, and Central Intelligence Agency covert operations."
tagline: "American historian of Southeast Asia and of the drug trades"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Alfred_McCoy_2026.png/330px-Alfred_McCoy_2026.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-06-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.34
  momentum:             6.386074658325969
  historical:           8.795325333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2823465/"
    handle:    "nm2823465"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88._%D9%85%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A"
    title: "ألفرد دبليو. مكوي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88._%D9%85%D9%83%D9%88%D9%89"
    title: "الفرد دبليو. مكوى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_W._McCoy"
    title: "Alfred W. McCoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_W._McCoy"
    title: "Alfred W. McCoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_McCoy"
    title: "Alfred McCoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88_%D9%85%DA%A9_%DA%A9%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "آلفرد دبلیو مک کوی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_W._McCoy"
    title: "Alfred W. McCoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_W._McCoy"
    title: "Alfred W. McCoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_W._McCoy"
    title: "Alfred W. McCoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1309734"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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