# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-gothard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:47:43.022Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-gothard"
name: "Bill Gothard"
slug: "bill-gothard"
description: "William W. Gothard Jr. is an American Christian minister, speaker, and writer, and the founder of the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP), an independent fundamentalist Christian organization.\nHis conservative teachings encourage Bible memorization, large families, homeschooling, aversion to debt, familial patriarchy, the submission of wives to husbands, and modest attire."
tagline: "American Christian leader (1934-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_Gothard_03.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1934-11-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.67
  momentum:             10.86510962821735
  historical:           6.175698666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "बिल गोथर्ड"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بيل جوثارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gothard"
    title: "Bill Gothard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://guw.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gothard"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_W._Gothard"
    title: "William W. Gothard"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gothard"
    title: "Bill Gothard"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4909187"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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