# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-margolis
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:18:56.957Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-margolis"
name: "Eric Margolis"
slug: "eric-margolis"
description: "Eric S. Margolis is an American-born journalist and writer. For 27 years, ending in 2010, he was a contributing editor to the Toronto Sun chain of newspapers, writing mainly about the Middle East, South Asia and Islam. He contributed to the Huffington Post until 2017 and appears frequently on Canadian television broadcasts, as well as on CNN. A multinational, he holds residences in New York, Paris, Toronto and Banff, Alberta, Canada. Margolis inherited Canadian vitamin manufacturer Jamieson Laboratories from his father in 1989 and owned it until 2014, when he sold it to a US private equity firm."
tagline: "American journalist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1942"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.92
  momentum:             0.1670644391408115
  historical:           5.282002666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Margolis_(journalist)"
    title: "Eric Margolis (journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%BA%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "اريك مارغوليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اريك مارجوليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eric_Margolis_(journalist)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%AF%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "اریک مارگولیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Skanderbeg_Margolis"
    title: "Eric Skanderbeg Margolis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5387043"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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