# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kirkpatrick-sale
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:53:11.412Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kirkpatrick-sale"
name: "Kirkpatrick Sale"
slug: "kirkpatrick-sale"
description: "Kirkpatrick Sale is an American author who has written prolifically about political decentralism, environmentalism, luddism and technology. He has been described as having a \"philosophy unified by decentralism\" and as being \"a leader of the neo-Luddites,\" an \"anti-globalization leftist,\" and \"the theoretician for a new secessionist movement.\""
tagline: "American author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kirkpatrick_Sale_1980.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-06-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.99
  momentum:             0.02384737678855326
  historical:           6.845396
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2874782/"
    handle:    "nm2874782"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9F%AF%E5%85%8B%E5%B8%95%E7%89%B9%E9%87%8C%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E5%A1%9E%E5%B0%94"
    title: "柯克帕特里克·塞尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "كيركباتريك سيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/KirkPatrick_Sale"
    title: "KirkPatrick Sale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkpatrick_Sale"
    title: "Kirkpatrick Sale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkpatrick_Sale"
    title: "Kirkpatrick Sale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkpatrick_Sale"
    title: "Kirkpatrick Sale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkpatrick_Sale"
    title: "Kirkpatrick Sale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3109689"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2499661"
    title: "Kirkpatrick Sale"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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