# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenneth-ring
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:54:36.038Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenneth-ring"
name: "Kenneth Ring"
slug: "kenneth-ring"
description: "Kenneth Ring is an American psychologist, born in San Francisco, California. He is the co-founder and past president of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) and is the founding editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies. He currently lives in Kentfield, California."
tagline: "Professor of psychology, expert on near-death-experiences"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kenneth_Ring_in_Kentfield%2C_California.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1935-12-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.423802612481857
  historical:           10.030816
  currentAttention:     7.56
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://kenring.org"
sources:
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    title: "Kenneth Ring"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kenneth Ring"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Ring"
    title: "Kenneth Ring"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kenneth Ring"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Ring"
    title: "Kenneth Ring"
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    title: "Kenneth Ring"
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    title: "Kenneth Ring"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump