# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bergen-evans
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:18:38.751Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bergen-evans"
name: "Bergen Evans"
slug: "bergen-evans"
description: "Bergen Baldwin Evans was a Northwestern University professor of English and a television host. He received a George Foster Peabody Award in 1957 for excellence in broadcasting for his CBS TV series The Last Word."
tagline: "American lexicographer (1904–1978)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bergen_Evans.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1904-09-19"
deathDate: "1978-02-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.08
  momentum:             0.5524861878453039
  historical:           6.140209333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0262717/"
    handle:    "nm0262717"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bergen_Evans"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%BA%D9%86_%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "بيرغن إيفانز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen_Evans"
    title: "Bergen Evans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%DA%AF%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "برگن اونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen_Evans"
    title: "Bergen Evans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bergen_Evans"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4891516"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2489943"
    title: "Bergen Evans"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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