# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matthew-shepard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:12:40.732Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matthew-shepard"
name: "Matthew Shepard"
slug: "matthew-shepard"
description: "Matthew Wayne Shepard was an American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie on October 6, 1998. He was transported by rescuers to Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, where he died six days later from severe head injuries sustained during the attack."
tagline: "American LGBT student and murder victim"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Matthew_Shepard.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1976-12-01"
deathDate: "1998-10-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.9703928693085045
  historical:           24.782548
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0791658"
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    url:       "http://www.matthewshepard.org/"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "マシュー・シェパード"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump