# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-karger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:04:58.524Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-karger"
name: "Fred Karger"
slug: "fred-karger"
description: "Fred S. Karger is an American political consultant, gay rights activist and watchdog, and former actor. His unsuccessful candidacy for the Republican nomination for the 2012 US presidential election made him the first openly gay presidential candidate in a major political party in American history. Karger has worked on nine presidential campaigns and served as a senior consultant to the campaigns of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and Gerald Ford."
tagline: "American political consultant and activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fred_Karger_by_IowaPolitics.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1950-01-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.88805066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/fredkarger"
    handle:    "fredkarger"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/fredkarger/"
    handle:    "fredkarger"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/fred.karger.5"
    handle:    "fred.karger.5"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://fredkarger.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "فريد كارغر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فريد كارجير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرد کارجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرێد کارگەر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Fred Karger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Karger"
    title: "Fred Karger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Karger"
    title: "Fred Karger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%93_%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%92%D7%A8"
    title: "פרד קרגר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Karger"
    title: "Fred Karger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Karger"
    title: "Fred Karger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Karger"
    title: "Fred Karger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Karger"
    title: "Fred Karger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Karger"
    title: "Fred Karger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q162624"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Fred Karger"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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