# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-fischer
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:06:07.510Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-fischer"
name: "Louis Fischer"
slug: "louis-fischer"
description: "Louis Fischer was an American journalist. Among his works were a contribution to the ex-communist treatise The God that Failed (1949),  The Life of Mahatma Gandhi (1950), basis for the Academy Award-winning film Gandhi (1982), as well as a Life of Lenin, which won the 1965 National Book Award in History and Biography."
tagline: "American journalist (1896-1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Louis_Fischer_1944.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1896-02-29"
deathDate: "1970-01-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.65
  momentum:             0.566750629722922
  historical:           15.99374133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Fischer"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B4%D8%B1_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A)"
    title: "لويس فيشر (صحفي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B4%D8%B1"
    title: "لويس فيشر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lui_Fi%C5%9Fer"
    title: "Lui Fişer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Fischer_(Journalist)"
    title: "Louis Fischer (Journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Fischer"
    title: "Louis Fischer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Fischer"
    title: "Louis Fischer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%90%D7%99_%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8"
    title: "לואי פישר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%88%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%B0"
    title: "लुईस फिशर"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Fischer"
    title: "Louis Fischer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Fischer"
    title: "Louis Fischer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovicus_Fischer"
    title: "Ludovicus Fischer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%88_%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%B0"
    title: "लुई फिशर"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Fischer"
    title: "Louis Fischer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Фишер, Луис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Fischer"
    title: "Louis Fischer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Fischer"
    title: "Louis Fischer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%83%D1%97_%D0%A4%D1%96%D1%88%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Луї Фішер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B7%AF%E6%98%93%C2%B7%E8%B2%BB%E6%AD%87%E7%88%BE"
    title: "路易·費歇爾"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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