# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-van-praagh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:27:04.124Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-van-praagh"
name: "James Van Praagh"
slug: "james-van-praagh"
description: "James Van Praagh is an American writer and television personality who describes himself as a clairvoyant and spiritual medium. He has written numerous books, including The New York Times bestseller Talking to Heaven. Van Praagh was a producer and screenwriter on the 2002 CBS primetime semi-autobiographical miniseries Living with the Dead starring Ted Danson. He also hosted a short-lived paranormal talk show called Beyond with James Van Praagh."
tagline: "American psychic"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/yOmZfqCwmzNgk37xdodtS7J2uTx.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1958-08-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.81
  momentum:             4.62825278810409
  historical:           9.020633333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1070530/"
    handle:    "nm1070530"
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Van_Praagh"
    title: "James Van Praagh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Van_Praagh"
    title: "James Van Praagh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Van_Praagh"
    title: "James Van Praagh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Van_Praagh"
    title: "James Van Praagh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Van_Praagh"
    title: "James Van Praagh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Van_Praagh"
    title: "James Van Praagh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Van_Praagh"
    title: "James Van Praagh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Van_Praagh"
    title: "James Van Praagh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Van_Praagh"
    title: "James Van Praagh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1369161"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/170445"
    title: "James Van Praagh"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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