# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-phelps
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:08:19.735Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-phelps"
name: "Fred Phelps"
slug: "fred-phelps"
description: "Fred Waldron Phelps Sr. was an American minister and disbarred lawyer who served as the pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church, worked as a civil rights attorney, and ran for statewide election in Kansas. A divisive and controversial figure, he gained national attention for his homophobic views and protests near the funerals of gay people, AIDS victims, military veterans, and disaster victims whom he believed were killed as a result of God punishing the U.S. for having \"bankrupt values\" and tolerating homosexuality. Phelps founded the Westboro Baptist Church, a Topeka, Kansas-based independent Primitive Baptist congregation, in 1955. It has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as \"arguably the most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America\". Its signature slogan, \"God Hates Fags\", remains the name of the group's principal website."
tagline: "American pastor and activist (1929-2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fred_Phelps_10-29-2002.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1929-11-13"
deathDate: "2014-03-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.451116
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 86
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1662196"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump