# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-walters
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:21:23.457Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-walters"
name: "Barbara Walters"
slug: "barbara-walters"
description: "Barbara Jill Walters was an American broadcast journalist and television personality. Known for her interviewing ability and popularity with viewers, she appeared as a host of numerous television programs, including Today, the ABC Evening News, 20/20, and The View. Walters was a working journalist from 1951 until her retirement in 2014. Walters was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1989, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the NATAS in 2000 and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007."
tagline: "American broadcast journalist (1929–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barbara_Walters_2004.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1929-09-25"
deathDate: "2022-12-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump