# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerry-falwell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:08:34.518Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jerry-falwell"
name: "Jerry Falwell"
slug: "jerry-falwell"
description: "Jerry Laymon Falwell was an American Baptist pastor, televangelist, and politically conservative activist. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy, later renamed Liberty Christian Academy, in 1967, founded Liberty University in 1971, and co-founded the Moral Majority in 1979."
tagline: "American evangelical pastor, televangelist, and conservative political commentator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jerry_Falwell_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1933-08-11"
deathDate: "2007-05-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump