# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-pharcellus-church
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:42:47.201Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-pharcellus-church"
name: "Francis Pharcellus Church"
slug: "francis-pharcellus-church"
description: "Francis Pharcellus Church was an American publisher and editor. In 1897, Church wrote the editorial \"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus\". Produced in response to eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon's letter asking whether Santa Claus was real, the widely republished editorial has become one of the most famous ever written."
tagline: "American publisher and editor (1839–1906)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/FrancisPharcellusChurch.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1839-02-22"
deathDate: "1906-04-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.01
  momentum:             11.14285714285715
  historical:           7.012204000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "فرانسيس فارسيلوس تشورتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Church"
    title: "Francis Church"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Pharcellus_Church"
    title: "Francis Pharcellus Church"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Pharcellus_Church"
    title: "Francis Pharcellus Church"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Pharcellus_Church"
    title: "Francis Pharcellus Church"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%81"
    title: "フランシス・チャーチ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%87%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81_%D0%A4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%D1%83%D1%81"
    title: "Черч, Фрэнсис Фарселлус"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q356856"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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