# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gary-yourofsky
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:34:57.717Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gary-yourofsky"
name: "Gary Yourofsky"
slug: "gary-yourofsky"
description: "Gary Yourofsky is an American animal rights activist, lecturer, and educator. He has had a major influence on contemporary veganism through his classroom lectures. The most notable speech Yourofsky gave, at Georgia Institute of Technology, is titled “The Most Important Speech You Will Ever Hear”, has received millions of views online, and is still shared in contemporary vegan activism."
tagline: "Animal rights activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gary_Yourofsky_%D7%92%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%A1%D7%A7%D7%99.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1970-08-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 137000
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump