# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lee-lorch
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:06:37.359Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lee-lorch"
name: "Lee Lorch"
slug: "lee-lorch"
description: "Lee Alexander Lorch was an American mathematician, and early civil rights activist. His leadership in the campaign to desegregate Stuyvesant Town, a large housing development on the East Side of Manhattan, helped eventually to make housing discrimination illegal in the United States but also resulted in Lorch losing his own job twice. He and his family then moved to the Southern United States where he and his wife, Grace Lorch, became involved in the civil rights movement there while also teaching at several Black colleges. He encouraged black students to pursue studies in mathematics and mentored several of the first black men and women to earn PhDs in mathematics in the United States. After moving to Canada as a result of McCarthyism, he ended his career as professor emeritus of mathematics at York University in Toronto, Ontario."
tagline: "American mathematician (1915–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lee_Lorch_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1915-09-20"
deathDate: "2014-02-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.274946666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Lorch"
    title: "Lee Lorch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B4"
    title: "لي لورش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لى لورش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Lorch"
    title: "Lee Lorch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Lorch"
    title: "Lee Lorch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Lorch"
    title: "Lee Lorch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6514418"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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