# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-brady
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:06:31.435Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-brady"
name: "James Brady"
slug: "james-brady"
description: "James Scott Brady was an American journalist, politician, activist and American public official who served as assistant to the U.S. president and the 17th White House Press Secretary, serving under President Ronald Reagan. On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. shot and wounded Brady during Hinckley’s attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, which occurred two months and 10 days after Reagan's inauguration."
tagline: "White House Press Secretary under Ronald Reagan (1940-2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Brady_19860314.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1940-08-29"
deathDate: "2014-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.71262533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "James Brady"
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    title: "James Brady"
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    title: "James Brady"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1387214"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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