# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-ferriero
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:59:59.991Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-ferriero"
name: "David Ferriero"
slug: "david-ferriero"
description: "David Sean Ferriero is an American librarian and library administrator, who served as the tenth Archivist of the United States. He previously served as the director of the New York Public Library and as the University Librarian and Vice Provost for Library Affairs at Duke University. Prior to his Duke position, he worked for 31 years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology library. Ferriero was the first librarian to serve as Archivist of the United States."
tagline: "American archivist (1945-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Ferriero_in_2018_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1945-12-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.043918324238691
  historical:           3.945249333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/dferriero"
    handle:    "dferriero"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/davidferriero/"
    handle:    "davidferriero"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/david.ferriero.1"
    handle:    "david.ferriero.1"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ferriero"
    title: "David Ferriero"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ferriero"
    title: "David Ferriero"
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    title: "دیوید فریرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ferriero"
    title: "David Ferriero"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3017895"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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