# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-harold-brunvand
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:54:15.601Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-harold-brunvand"
name: "Jan Harold Brunvand"
slug: "jan-harold-brunvand"
description: "Jan Harold Brunvand is an American retired folklorist, researcher, writer, public speaker, and professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah."
tagline: "American folklorist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Folklorist_Jan_Harold_Brunvand.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1933-03-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.90111866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump