# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-templeton
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:03:41.079Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-templeton"
name: "Charles Templeton"
slug: "charles-templeton"
description: "Charles Bradley Templeton was a Canadian broadcaster, journalist, novelist, and former Christian evangelist. Known in the 1940s and 1950s as a prominent preacher and an early associate of Billy Graham, he later left evangelism, became an agnostic and then an atheist, and wrote about his rejection of Christianity in Farewell to God. Some Christian writers have cited late-life comments attributed to Templeton about missing Jesus, but these claims have been interpreted in different ways, particularly because Templeton was elderly and suffering from Alzheimer's disease near the end of his life."
tagline: "Canadian cartoonist, evangelist, agnostic, politician, newspaper editor, inventor, broadcaster and author (1915-2001)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1915-10-07"
deathDate: "2001-06-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.68
  momentum:             5.824345146379044
  historical:           6.90386
  currentAttention:     32.35747303543913
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Templeton"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "تشارلز تمبلتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "تشارلز تمبلتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Templeton"
    title: "Charles Templeton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Templeton"
    title: "Charles Templeton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Templeton"
    title: "Charles Templeton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Templeton"
    title: "Charles Templeton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B3_%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%BE%D9%84%D9%B9%D9%86"
    title: "چارلس ٹیمپلٹن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2960301"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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