# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dave-elman
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:40:44.218Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dave-elman"
name: "Dave Elman"
slug: "dave-elman"
description: "Dave Elman, birth name David Kopelman, was a noted Jewish American radio host, comedian, and songwriter, and important figure in the field of hypnosis. He is most known today as the author of Findings in Hypnosis (1964). Over the course of his life, he was also well known as the creator and host of the popular radio show Hobby Lobby as well as a songwriter and lyricist."
tagline: "American hypnotist (1900–1967)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1900-05-06"
deathDate: "1967-12-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.37
  momentum:             2.725321888412017
  historical:           8.109362666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ديف إلمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ديف المان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Elman"
    title: "Dave Elman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Elman"
    title: "Dave Elman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%99%D7%99%D7%91_%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%9F"
    title: "דייב אלמן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Elman"
    title: "Dave Elman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Elman"
    title: "Dave Elman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E8%A1%9B%C2%B7%E8%89%BE%E7%88%BE%E6%9B%BC"
    title: "大衛·艾爾曼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q533987"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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