# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-gergen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:08:15.004Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-gergen"
name: "David Gergen"
slug: "david-gergen"
description: "David Richmond Gergen was an American political commentator and longtime presidential adviser who served during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. He was later a senior political analyst for CNN and a professor of public service and the founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Gergen was also the former editor at large of U.S. News & World Report and a contributor to CNN and Parade Magazine. He was twice a member of election coverage teams that won Peabody awards: in 1988 with MacNeil–Lehrer, and in 2008 with CNN."
tagline: "American political consultant (1942–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Gergen_World_Economic_Forum_2013_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1942-05-09"
deathDate: "2025-07-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump