# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joshua-foer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:48:20.194Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joshua-foer"
name: "Joshua Foer"
slug: "joshua-foer"
description: "Joshua Foer is a freelance journalist and author living in Brookline, Massachusetts, with a primary focus on science. He was the 2006 USA Memory Champion, which was described in his 2011 book, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything. He also co-founded the travel company Atlas Obscura with Dylan Thuras."
tagline: "American freelance journalist; memory champion (born 1982)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joshua-foer-2007.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1982-09-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.05454
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/joshuafoer"
    handle:    "joshuafoer"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://joshuafoer.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%A7_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joshua Foer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Foer"
    title: "Joshua Foer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جاشوا فوئر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joshua Foer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ジョシュア・フォア"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump