# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dan-barker
# Generated: 2026-09-03T12:23:16.029Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dan-barker"
name: "Dan Barker"
slug: "dan-barker"
description: "Daniel Edwin Barker is an American atheist activist and musician who served as an evangelical Christian preacher and composer for 19 years but left Christianity in 1984. He and his wife Annie Laurie Gaylor are the current co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and he is cofounder of The Clergy Project. He has written numerous articles for Freethought Today, an American freethought newspaper. He is the author of several books including Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist."
tagline: "American atheist activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dan_barker_by_Matti.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-06-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.198019801980198
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Dan Barker"
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    title: "Dan Barker"
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    title: "Dan Barker"
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    title: "Dan Barker"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump