# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dan-markel
# Generated: 2026-09-06T18:09:08.621Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dan-markel"
name: "Dan Markel"
slug: "dan-markel"
description: "Daniel Eric Markel was a Canadian-born attorney and law professor who wrote various works on retribution in criminal law and sentencing with a focus on the role of punishment in the criminal justice system. He earned a J.D. degree from Harvard University in 2001, and after working as a law clerk to a federal judge and as an associate at a law firm, joined the faculty of Florida State University in 2005."
tagline: "American lawyer and academic; murder-for-hire victim"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/23/Dan_Markel.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
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: "1972-10-09"
deathDate: "2014-07-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.61
  momentum:             25
  historical:           6.401454666666666
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5213934"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Markel"
    title: "Dan Markel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "دان ماركيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Markel"
    title: "Daniel Markel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Discovered via Wikipedia top-views