# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ivan-stang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:54:05.379Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ivan-stang"
name: "Ivan Stang"
slug: "ivan-stang"
description: "Ivan Stang is an American writer, filmmaker and broadcaster, best known as the author and publisher of the first screed of the Church of the SubGenius. He is credited with founding the Church with friend Philo Drummond in 1979, though Stang himself denied this and claimed the organization was founded in 1953 by J. R. \"Bob\" Dobbs."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ivan_stang_at_starwood.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-08-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           59.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.507382666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 6690
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0808028/"
    handle:    "nm0808028"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/7cPkqdax0HbsvMP8tcfItg"
    handle:    "7cPkqdax0HbsvMP8tcfItg"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5cnVpuDQcMCSNHx8_FtQMQ"
    handle:    "@revstang"
    followers: 6690
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/472763"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%BA"
    title: "إيفان ستانغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "ايفان ستانج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Stang"
    title: "Ivan Stang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Stang"
    title: "Ivan Stang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%86%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B3"
    title: "Івен Стенг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "ایوان اسٹینگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f0c40373-af03-4802-8ccc-652581c1f1ad"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6097538"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2747474"
    title: "Ivan Stang"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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