# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hank-hanegraaff
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:08:33.797Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hank-hanegraaff"
name: "Hank Hanegraaff"
slug: "hank-hanegraaff"
description: "Hendrik \"Hank\" Hanegraaff, also known as the \"Bible Answer Man\", is an American Christian author and radio talk-show host. Formerly an evangelical Protestant, he joined the Eastern Orthodox Church in 2017. He is an outspoken figure within the Christian countercult movement, where he has established a reputation for his critiques of non-Christian religions, new religious movements, and cults, as well as heresy in Christianity. He is also an apologist on doctrinal and cultural issues."
tagline: "American writer and radio host"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hank_Hanegraaff.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950-03-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.202381333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4241317/"
    handle:    "nm4241317"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.hankhanegraaff.com/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Hanegraaff"
    title: "Hank Hanegraaff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هانك هانيجراف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Hanegraaff"
    title: "Hank Hanegraaff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Hanegraaff"
    title: "Hank Hanegraaff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Hanegraaff"
    title: "Hank Hanegraaff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%89%E5%B0%BC%E8%91%9B%E5%A4%AB"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump