# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-c-lilly
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:36:19.462Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-c-lilly"
name: "John C. Lilly"
slug: "john-c-lilly"
description: "John Cunningham Lilly was an American physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher, writer, and inventor. He was a member of a group of counterculture thinkers that included Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, and Werner Erhard, all frequent visitors to the Lilly home. He often stirred controversy, especially among mainstream scientists."
tagline: "American physician (1915-2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Johnlilly4.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1915-01-06"
deathDate: "2001-09-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.johnclilly.com/"
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    title: "Лилли, Джон"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump