# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christopher-mcdougall
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:42:21.376Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christopher-mcdougall"
name: "Christopher McDougall"
slug: "christopher-mcdougall"
description: "Christopher McDougall is an American author and journalist. He is best known for his 2009 book Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen."
tagline: "American journalist and writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1962-01-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.3946388682055101
  historical:           8.316922666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ChrisMcDougall"
    handle:    "ChrisMcDougall"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.chrismcdougall.com/"
sources:
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    title: "克里斯托弗·麦克杜格尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كريستوفر ماكدوغال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Кристофър Макдугъл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_McDougall"
    title: "Christopher McDougall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_McDougall"
    title: "Christopher McDougall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_McDougall"
    title: "Christopher McDougall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%BB%2C_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%80"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Christopher McDougall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Крістофер Макдуґал"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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