# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-e-merrill-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:08:15.393Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-e-merrill-jr"
name: "Charles E. Merrill, Jr."
slug: "charles-e-merrill-jr"
description: "Charles Edward Merrill Jr. was an American educator, author, and philanthropist, best known for supporting historically black colleges and founding the Commonwealth School in Boston."
tagline: "American academic and writer (1920-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Merril_charles_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1920-08-17"
deathDate: "2017-11-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.18
  momentum:             14.86238532110092
  historical:           4.6189
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%A5%D9%8A._%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "تشارلز إي. ميريل جونيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Merrill_Jr."
    title: "Charles E. Merrill Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Merrill_Jr."
    title: "Charles E. Merrill Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Merrill_Jr."
    title: "Charles Merrill Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Merrill_Jr."
    title: "Charles E. Merrill Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5077142"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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