# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jonathan-wells
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:40:06.299Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jonathan-wells"
name: "Jonathan Wells"
slug: "jonathan-wells"
description: "John Corrigan \"Jonathan\" Wells was an American molecular biologist, cell biologist, and theologian. He was an advocate of intelligent design, a pseudoscientific argument for the existence of God."
tagline: "American intelligent design advocate (1942–2024)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/97/Jonathan_Wells_Discovery_Institute_Photo_2008.jpeg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1942-09-19"
deathDate: "2024-09-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Jonathan Wells"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump