# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eugene-lyons
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:38:58.858Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eugene-lyons"
name: "Eugene Lyons"
slug: "eugene-lyons"
description: "Eugene Lyons, born Yevgeny Natanovich Privin, was a Russian-born American journalist and writer. A fellow traveler of Communism in his younger years, Lyons became highly critical of the Soviet Union after several years there as a correspondent of United Press International. Lyons also wrote a biography of President Herbert Hoover."
tagline: "20th-century American journalist and writer"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1898-07-01"
deathDate: "1985-01-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.28974266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Юджын Лаянс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eugene Lyons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eugene Lyons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Lyons"
    title: "Eugene Lyons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Lyons"
    title: "Eugene Lyons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Lyons"
    title: "Eugene Lyons"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump