# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/geoffrey-nunberg
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:50:32.356Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/geoffrey-nunberg"
name: "Geoffrey Nunberg"
slug: "geoffrey-nunberg"
description: "Geoffrey Nunberg was an American lexical semantician, linguist, and author. In 2001, he received the Linguistics, Language, and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistic Society of America for his contributions to National Public Radio's Fresh Air."
tagline: "American linguist (1945-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Geoffrey_Nunberg_in_2012_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-06-01"
deathDate: "2020-08-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.57
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.274010666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2357426/"
    handle:    "nm2357426"
sources:
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    title: "Geoffrey Nunberg"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Nunberg"
    title: "Geoffrey Nunberg"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Nunberg"
    title: "Geoffrey Nunberg"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Nunberg"
    title: "Geoffrey Nunberg"
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  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Nunberg"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5534793"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/551724"
    title: "Geoffrey Nunberg"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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