# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-gordon-white
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:40:55.585Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-gordon-white"
name: "David Gordon White"
slug: "david-gordon-white"
description: "David Gordon White is an American Indologist and author on the history of yoga and tantra. He won the CHOICE book selection in religion, and an honorable mention in the PROSE book awards, both for Sinister Yogis."
tagline: "American historian of religion"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953-09-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.7
  momentum:             3.669250645994832
  historical:           5.485710666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "David Gordon White"
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    title: "ديفيد غوردون وايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gordon_White"
    title: "David Gordon White"
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  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Gordon_White"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gordon_White"
    title: "David Gordon White"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1174571"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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