# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-d-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:14:56.987Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-d-brown"
name: "Michael D. Brown"
slug: "michael-d-brown"
description: "Michael DeWayne Brown is an American attorney, and former government official who served as the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from 2003 to 2005. He joined FEMA as general counsel in 2001 and became deputy director the same year. Appointed in January 2003 by President George W. Bush to lead FEMA, Brown resigned in September 2005 following his controversial handling of Hurricane Katrina. Brown currently hosts a radio talk show on 630 KHOW in Denver, Colorado."
tagline: "Former director of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency and radio talk show host"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_D._Brown%2C_official_FEMA_photo_portrait%2C_2003.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1954-11-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.771606666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2017924/"
    handle:    "nm2017924"
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    title: "مایکل دی. براون"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump