# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-kass
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:55:05.891Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-kass"
name: "Leon Kass"
slug: "leon-kass"
description: "Leon Richard Kass is an American physician, biochemist, educator, and public intellectual. Kass is best known as a proponent of liberal arts education via the \"Great Books,\" as a critic of human cloning, life extension, euthanasia and embryo research, and for his tenure as chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005. Although Kass is often referred to as a bioethicist, he eschews the term and refers to himself as \"an old-fashioned humanist. A humanist is concerned broadly with all aspects of human life, not just the ethical.\""
tagline: "American academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/KassPCOB.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939-02-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.372537333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 223
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4534755/"
    handle:    "nm4534755"
sources:
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "لئون کاس"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Kass"
    title: "Leon Kass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Kass"
    title: "Leon Kass"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3475197"
    title: "Kassandra Leon"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump