# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-berg
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:22:55.244Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-berg"
name: "David Berg"
slug: "david-berg"
description: "David Brandt Berg was an American preacher who founded and led the cult generally known as the Children of God and subsequently as The Family International. Berg's group, established in 1968 among the counterculture youth in Southern California, gained notoriety for incorporating sexuality into its spiritual message and recruitment methods. Berg and his organization were accused of a broad range of sexual misconduct, including child sexual abuse."
tagline: "American leader of Children of God (1920–1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Berg_(Bildausschnitt).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1919-02-18"
deathDate: "1994-10-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.06973333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.davidberg.org"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Berg"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%BA"
    title: "ديفيد بيرغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brandt_Berg"
    title: "David Brandt Berg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berg"
    title: "David Berg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berg"
    title: "David Berg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berg"
    title: "David Berg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berg"
    title: "David Berg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berg_(secte)"
    title: "David Berg (secte)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berg"
    title: "David Berg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berg"
    title: "David Berg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berg"
    title: "David Berg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berg"
    title: "David Berg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berg"
    title: "David Berg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berg"
    title: "David Berg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berg"
    title: "David Berg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berg"
    title: "David Berg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q716827"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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