# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-holmes
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:31:59.533Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-holmes"
name: "James Holmes"
slug: "james-holmes"
description: "James Eagan Holmes is an American convicted mass murderer who perpetrated the 2012 Aurora theater shooting in which he killed 12 people and injured 70 others at a Century 16 movie theater on July 20, 2012. He had no known criminal background before the shooting occurred. Before the shooting, Holmes booby-trapped his apartment with explosives, which were defused one day later by a bomb squad."
tagline: "Mass murderer convicted of 2012 Aurora shooting"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/James_Holmes%2C_cropped.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1987-12-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           59.11
  momentum:             5.527834525025537
  historical:           18.12238533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4601595/"
    handle:    "nm4601595"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump