# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-copps
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:44:07.906Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-copps"
name: "Michael Copps"
slug: "michael-copps"
description: "Michael Joseph Copps is a former commissioner of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), an independent agency of the United States government. He was sworn in on May 31, 2001, and served until December 31, 2011. He took on the additional role of acting chairman from January 22, 2009, through June 28, 2009. He relinquished the chairmanship to Julius Genachowski after Genachowski was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 25 and then sworn in on June 29, 2009. In 2014, he joined Common Cause, a nonpartisan citizen advocacy organization, to lead a Media and Democracy Initiative."
tagline: "Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_j_copps.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-04-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.5
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.405148
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B3"
    title: "مايكل كوبس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%BE%D8%B3"
    title: "مایکل کوپس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Copps"
    title: "Michael Copps"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Copps"
    title: "Michael Copps"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Copps"
    title: "Michael Copps"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2957889"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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