# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-burgess
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:56:55.747Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-burgess"
name: "John Burgess"
slug: "john-burgess"
description: "John William Burgess was an American political scientist. He spent most of his career at Columbia University where he in 1880 created the first graduate school in Political Science. He has been described as \"the most influential political scientist of the period\" and \"the father of American political science.\""
tagline: "American political scientist (1844–1931)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_William_Burgess_(1844%E2%80%931931).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1844-08-26"
deathDate: "1931-01-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.81
  momentum:             4.615384615384617
  historical:           10.95068533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burgess_(universitaire)"
    title: "John Burgess (universitaire)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump