# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-freely
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:48:06.705Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-freely"
name: "John Freely"
slug: "john-freely"
description: "John Freely was an American physicist, teacher, and author of popular travel and history books on Istanbul, Athens, Venice, Turkey, Greece, and the Ottoman Empire."
tagline: "American physicist (1926-2017)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1926-06-26"
deathDate: "2017-04-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.1
  momentum:             10
  historical:           6.347409333333334
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Freely"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "جون فريلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Freely"
    title: "John Freely"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Freely"
    title: "John Freely"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Freely"
    title: "John Freely"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Freely"
    title: "John Freely"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Freely"
    title: "John Freely"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6234172"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump