# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-m-barry
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:46:39.669Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-m-barry"
name: "John M. Barry"
slug: "john-m-barry"
description: "John M. Barry is an American author and historian who has written books on the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the influenza pandemic of 1918, and the development of the modern form of the ideas of separation of church and state and individual liberty. He is a professor at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and Distinguished Scholar at Tulane's Bywater Institute."
tagline: "American historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_M._Barry_at_Politics_and_Prose.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.150361333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "جون ام. بارى"
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    title: "Барри, Джон (писатель)"
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  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BA%A6%E7%BF%B0%C2%B7M%C2%B7%E5%B7%B4%E9%87%8C"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump