# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-q-wilson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:51:52.742Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-q-wilson"
name: "James Q. Wilson"
slug: "james-q-wilson"
description: "James Quinn Wilson was an American political scientist and an authority on public administration. Most of his career was spent as a professor at UCLA and Harvard University. He was the chairman of the Council of Academic Advisors of the American Enterprise Institute, member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1985–1990), and the President's Council on Bioethics. He was Director of Joint Center for Urban Studies at Harvard-MIT."
tagline: "American political scientist and public policy expert"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1931-05-27"
deathDate: "2012-03-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump