# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-dobson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:09:50.786Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-dobson"
name: "James Dobson"
slug: "james-dobson"
description: "James Clayton Dobson Jr. was an American evangelical Christian author, psychologist and founder of Focus on the Family (FotF), which he led from 1977 until 2010. In the 1980s, he was ranked as one of the most influential spokesmen for conservative social positions in American public life. Although never an ordained minister, he was called \"the nation's most influential evangelical leader\" by The New York Times while Slate portrayed him as being a successor to evangelical leaders Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson."
tagline: "American Evangelical Christian psychologist, author, and radio broadcaster (1936–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Dobson_2noprofile.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-04-21"
deathDate: "2025-08-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.343132
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1538867"
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    url:       "https://www.drjamesdobson.org/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump