# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-perry-barlow
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:35:50.977Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-perry-barlow"
name: "John Perry Barlow"
slug: "john-perry-barlow"
description: "John Perry Barlow was an American poet, essayist, cattle rancher, and cyberlibertarian political activist. He was also a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and an early fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society."
tagline: "American poet and essayist (1947–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Perry_Barlow_2012.jpg?width=1200"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1947-10-03"
deathDate: "2018-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 241
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump