# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lisa-mcpherson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:04:52.119Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lisa-mcpherson"
name: "Lisa McPherson"
slug: "lisa-mcpherson"
description: "Lisa McPherson was an American Scientologist who died in the care of the Church of Scientology in Clearwater, Florida. After a minor traffic accident where McPherson seemed unharmed, she removed her clothes in the street and paramedics transported her to a local hospital. In order to avoid psychiatric intervention, local Scientologists convinced her to leave the hospital and seek care at the nearby Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization (FSO). There she was held against her will for 17 days without any medical care, while her physical and mental condition rapidly deteriorated and she died. Following the report by the state medical examiner that indicated that McPherson was a victim of negligent homicide, FSO was indicted on two felony charges, \"abuse and/or neglect of a disabled adult\" and \"practicing medicine without a license.\" The charges were dropped after the state's medical examiner changed the cause of death from \"undetermined\" to an \"accident\" on June 13, 2000. A civil suit brought by McPherson's family was settled on May 28, 2004."
tagline: "American Scientologist (1959–1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lisa_McPherson_raw_scan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1959-02-10"
deathDate: "1995-12-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.808429333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BA%97%E8%8E%8E%C2%B7%E9%BA%A5%E5%85%8B%E5%BC%97%E6%A3%AE"
    title: "麗莎·麥克弗森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_McPherson"
    title: "Lisa McPherson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_McPherson"
    title: "Lisa McPherson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_McPherson"
    title: "Lisa McPherson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_McPherson"
    title: "Lisa McPherson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3"
    title: "リサ・マクファーソン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D1%8C_%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%B7%D1%8B_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Смерть Лизы Макферсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q453347"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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