# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/loren-cunningham
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:18:38.519Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/loren-cunningham"
name: "Loren Cunningham"
slug: "loren-cunningham"
description: "Loren Duane Cunningham was an American missionary who was the founder of the international Christian missionary organization Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and the University of the Nations. Cunningham founded YWAM in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1960 with his wife, Darlene Cunningham, at the age of 24. They resided in Kona, Hawaii, and were members of the YWAM Global Leadership Team."
tagline: "American missionary (1935–2023)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1935-06-30"
deathDate: "2023-10-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.788053333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Loren_Cunningham"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Cunningham"
    title: "Loren Cunningham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Cunningham"
    title: "Loren Cunningham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Cunningham"
    title: "Loren Cunningham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Cunningham"
    title: "Loren Cunningham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%8B%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%8F%E3%83%A0"
    title: "ローレン・カニングハム"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Cunningham"
    title: "Loren Cunningham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Cunningham"
    title: "Loren Cunningham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Cunningham"
    title: "Loren Cunningham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Cunningham"
    title: "Loren Cunningham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1870007"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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