# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dan-rather
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:31:02.215Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dan-rather"
name: "Dan Rather"
slug: "dan-rather"
description: "Daniel Irvin Rather Jr. is an American journalist, commentator, and former national evening news anchor. He began his career in Texas, becoming a national name in September 1961 after his reporting saved thousands of lives during Hurricane Carla. He has reported on some of the most significant events of the modern age, such as from Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Gulf War, 9/11, the Iraq War, and the war on terror."
tagline: "American broadcast journalist (born 1931)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dan_Rather_at_CBS%2C_1984_election_set%2C_N.Y.C_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1931-10-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Разер, Дэн"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump