# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-william-colbert-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:58:55.001Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-william-colbert-jr"
name: "James William Colbert, Jr."
slug: "james-william-colbert-jr"
description: "James William Colbert Jr. was an American physician and immunologist. He was the first vice president of academic affairs at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), serving in this capacity from 1969 until his death in a plane crash in 1974. He was the father of Stephen Colbert and Elizabeth Colbert Busch."
tagline: "American physician (1920-1974)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/James_William_Colbert_Jr.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1920-12-15"
deathDate: "1974-09-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54
  momentum:             10
  historical:           3.625744
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  46
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "جيمس وليام كولبير جونيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_William_Colbert_Jr."
    title: "James William Colbert Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24069531"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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