# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bennett-cerf
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:45:52.426Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bennett-cerf"
name: "Bennett Cerf"
slug: "bennett-cerf"
description: "Bennett Alfred Cerf was an American writer, publisher, and co-founder of the American publishing firm Random House. Cerf was also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his weekly television appearances for 16 years on the panel game show What's My Line?"
tagline: "American publisher and author (1898-1971)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bennett_Cerf.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1898-05-25"
deathDate: "1971-08-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.064025324211171
  historical:           13.05672666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0148569/"
    handle:    "nm0148569"
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    title: "Bennett Cerf"
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    title: "Bennett Cerf"
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    title: "Bennett Cerf"
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    title: "Բենեթ Ալֆրեդ Սերֆ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump