# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mel-white
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:18:49.874Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mel-white"
name: "Mel White"
slug: "mel-white"
description: "James Melville White is an American clergyman and author. White was a behind-the-scenes member of the Evangelical Protestant movement through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, writing film and television specials and ghostwriting autobiographies for televangelists such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Billy Graham. After years of writing for the Christian right, he came out as gay in 1994 and devoted himself full-time to minister to lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people, also writing extensively on the subject of gay Christians."
tagline: "American clergyman and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mel_white_christmas.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-07-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.664774666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0925203/"
    handle:    "nm0925203"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.melwhite.org/"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_White"
    title: "Mel White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "ميل وايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "ميل وايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_White"
    title: "Mel White"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB"
    title: "Уайт, Мел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1680811"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1590229"
    title: "Mel White"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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