# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-brown
# Generated: 2026-09-07T16:44:47.816Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-brown"
name: "John Brown"
slug: "john-brown"
description: "John Brown was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the American Civil War. An evangelical Christian of strong religious convictions, Brown was profoundly influenced by the Puritan faith of his upbringing. He believed that he was \"an instrument of God\", raised to strike the \"death blow\" to slavery in the United States, a \"sacred obligation\". Brown was the leading exponent of violence in the American abolitionist movement, believing it was necessary to end slavery after decades of peaceful efforts had failed."
tagline: "American abolitionist (1800–1859)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1846-47_John_Brown_by_Augustus_Washington_(without_frame).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1800-05-09"
deathDate: "1859-12-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           30.404848
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 104
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump