# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kerry-wendell-thornley
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:12:45.083Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kerry-wendell-thornley"
name: "Kerry Wendell Thornley"
slug: "kerry-wendell-thornley"
description: "Kerry Wendell Thornley was an American author. He is known as the co-founder of Discordianism, in which context he is usually known as Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst or simply Lord Omar. He and Hill authored the religion's text Principia Discordia, Or, How I Found Goddess, and What I Did to Her When I Found Her. Thornley also was known for his 1962 manuscript The Idle Warriors, which was inspired by the activities of his acquaintance Lee Harvey Oswald before the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy."
tagline: "Co-founder of Discordianism (1938-1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kerry_Thornley_photo_by_Sondra_London.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-04-17"
deathDate: "1998-11-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.7346938775510206
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump