# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-m-allegro
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:19:09.346Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-m-allegro"
name: "John M. Allegro"
slug: "john-m-allegro"
description: "John Marco Allegro was an English archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar. He was a populariser of the Dead Sea Scrolls through his books and radio broadcasts. He was the editor of some of the most famous and controversial scrolls published, the pesharim. A number of Allegro's later books, including The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, brought him both popular fame and notoriety, and also complicated his career. Married with two children, he died of a heart attack on his 65th birthday in 1988."
tagline: "English archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar (1923–1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Marco_Allegro.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1923-02-17"
deathDate: "1988-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.110259826782146
  historical:           15.12567066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump