# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herb-caen
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:05:13.767Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herb-caen"
name: "Herb Caen"
slug: "herb-caen"
description: "Herbert Eugene Caen was a San Francisco humorist and journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, and offbeat puns and anecdotes—\"A continuous love letter to San Francisco\"—appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty years and made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area."
tagline: "American newspaper columnist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/HERBCAEN1990SFphotoNancyWong.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1916-04-03"
deathDate: "1997-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.55
  momentum:             1.377597109304426
  historical:           8.424017333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A8_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "هيرب كاين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Caen"
    title: "Herb Caen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Caen"
    title: "Herb Caen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Caen"
    title: "Herb Caen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Caen"
    title: "Herb Caen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Caen"
    title: "Herb Caen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%80%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A2%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%BF_%D5%94%D5%A1%D5%A5%D5%B6"
    title: "Հերբերտ Քաեն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Caen"
    title: "Herb Caen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Caen"
    title: "Herb Caen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3091058"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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