# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-earl-ray
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:49:36.724Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-earl-ray"
name: "James Earl Ray"
slug: "james-earl-ray"
description: "James Earl Ray was an American fugitive who was convicted of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968."
tagline: "American criminal, convicted for the murder of civil rights activist and Nobel peace prize laureate Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mugshot_of_James_Earl_Ray_-_July_8%2C_1955.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1928-03-10"
deathDate: "1998-04-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump