# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-lindow
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:43:25.046Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-lindow"
name: "John Lindow"
slug: "john-lindow"
description: "John Frederick Lindow is an American philologist who is Professor Emeritus of Old Norse and Folklore at University of California, Berkeley. He is a well known authority on Old Norse religion and literature."
tagline: "Academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Lindow.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           6.145213333333334
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  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "John Lindow"
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    title: "John Lindow"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lindow"
    title: "John Lindow"
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    title: "John Lindow"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump