# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dennis-mckenna
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:58:27.175Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/dennis-mckenna"
name: "Dennis McKenna"
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description: "Dennis Jon McKenna is an American ethnopharmacologist, research pharmacognosist, lecturer and author. He is the brother of well-known psychedelics proponent Terence McKenna and is a founding board member and the director of ethnopharmacology at the Heffter Research Institute, a non-profit organization concerned with the investigation of the potential therapeutic uses of psychedelic medicines."
tagline: "American ethnopharmacologist and author"
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birthDate: "1950-12-17"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump