# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-van-doren
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:03:40.246Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-van-doren"
name: "Charles Van Doren"
slug: "charles-van-doren"
description: "Charles Lincoln Van Doren was an American writer and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s. In 1959, he testified before the United States Congress that he had been given the correct answers by the producers of the NBC quiz show Twenty-One. Terminated by NBC, he joined Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. in 1959, becoming a vice-president and writing and editing many books before retiring in 1982."
tagline: "American university teacher, non-fiction writer, biographer (1926-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles-Van-Doren-1959.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1926-02-12"
deathDate: "2019-04-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.13
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.13896533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1403751/"
    handle:    "nm1403751"
sources:
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    title: "Charles Van Doren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تشارلز فان دورين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Van_Doren"
    title: "Charles Van Doren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Van_Doren"
    title: "Charles Van Doren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Van_Doren"
    title: "Charles Van Doren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Van_Doren"
    title: "Charles Van Doren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Van_Doren"
    title: "Charles Van Doren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Van_Doren"
    title: "Charles Van Doren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Van_Doren"
    title: "Charles Van Doren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Van_Doren"
    title: "Charles Van Doren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_van_Doren"
    title: "Charles van Doren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Van_Doren"
    title: "Charles Van Doren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Van_Doren"
    title: "Charles Van Doren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1066305"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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