# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-weigel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:28:56.625Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-weigel"
name: "George Weigel"
slug: "george-weigel"
description: "George Weigel is an American Catholic author, political analyst, and social activist. He currently serves as a distinguished senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Weigel was the founding president of the James Madison Foundation. He is the author of a best-selling biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, and Tranquillitas Ordinis: The Present Failure and Future Promise of American Catholic Thought on War and Peace."
tagline: "American writer"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1951-04-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump