# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-louis-esposito
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:29:42.429Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-louis-esposito"
name: "John Louis Esposito"
slug: "john-louis-esposito"
description: "John Louis Esposito is an American academic, professor of Middle Eastern and religious studies, and scholar of Islamic studies, who serves as professor of religion, international affairs, and Islamic studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He is also the founding director of the Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim–Christian Understanding at Georgetown."
tagline: "American professor of Middle Eastern studies (born 1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_L._Esposito_c._1983.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1940-05-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           19.33809066666667
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump