# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-gilligan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:21:52.115Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-gilligan"
name: "James Gilligan"
slug: "james-gilligan"
description: "James Gilligan is an American psychiatrist and author best known for his series of books entitled Violence. A professor at New York University, he has served as a consultant on violence prevention to Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair, President of the United States Bill Clinton, and Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan."
tagline: "American psychiatrist and author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carol_and_James_Gilligan_P1010970.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1935"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.46
  momentum:             2.752293577981651
  historical:           3.083046666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gilligan"
    title: "James Gilligan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gilligan"
    title: "James Gilligan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Gilligan"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16251287"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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