# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/earl-nightingale
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:47:04.862Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/earl-nightingale"
name: "Earl Nightingale"
slug: "earl-nightingale"
description: "Earl Nightingale V was an American radio speaker and author, dealing mostly with the subjects of human character development, motivation, and meaningful existence. He was the voice during the early 1950s of Sky King, the hero of a radio adventure series, and was a WGN radio program host from 1950 to 1956. Nightingale was the author of The Strangest Secret, which economist Terry Savage has termed \"…one of the great motivational books of all time.\" During his lifetime, Nightingale wrote and recorded more than 7,000 radio programs, 250 audio programs as well as television programs and videos."
tagline: "American motivational speaker (1921-1989)"
gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1921-03-12"
deathDate: "1989-03-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.04586933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump