# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-ellis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:38:56.907Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-ellis"
name: "Joseph Ellis"
slug: "joseph-ellis"
description: "Joseph John-Michael Ellis III is an American historian whose work focuses on the lives and times of the Founding Fathers of the United States. His book American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson won a National Book Award in 1997 and Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History. Both books were bestsellers."
tagline: "American historian (born 1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_ellis_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-07-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.23
  momentum:             0.926207105982387
  historical:           9.329528
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.josephellishistorian.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d4bb961b-5000-47ef-9ad5-fde5b1fcca29"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "جوزيف إليس (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "جوزيف اليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ellis"
    title: "Joseph Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_J._Ellis"
    title: "Joseph J. Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ellis"
    title: "Joseph Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ellis"
    title: "Joseph Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioseph_Ioannes_Ellis"
    title: "Ioseph Ioannes Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ellis"
    title: "Joseph Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ellis"
    title: "Joseph Ellis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BA%A6%E7%91%9F%E5%A4%AB%C2%B7%E5%9F%83%E5%88%A9%E6%96%AF"
    title: "约瑟夫·埃利斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q669468"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump