# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-friendly
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:11:09.198Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-friendly"
name: "Michael Friendly"
slug: "michael-friendly"
description: "Michael Louis Friendly is a Canadian psychologist, Professor of Psychology at York University in Ontario, Canada, and director of its Statistical Consulting Service, especially known for his contributions to graphical methods for categorical and multivariate data, and on the history of data and information visualisation."
tagline: "American-Canadian psychologist (born 1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Friendly%2C_portrait_as_a_photo_mosaic.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.605868
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "مايكل فريندلى"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump