# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-newdow
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:48:54.158Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-newdow"
name: "Michael Newdow"
slug: "michael-newdow"
description: "Michael Arthur Newdow is an American attorney and emergency medicine physician. He is best known for his efforts to have recitations of the current version of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools in the United States declared unconstitutional because of its inclusion of the phrase \"under God\". He also filed and lost a lawsuit to stop the invocation prayer at President Bush's second inauguration and in 2009 he filed a lawsuit to prevent references to God and religion from being part of President Obama's inauguration."
tagline: "American physician and lawyer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_newdow_2008.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953-06-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.677610666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Newdow"
    title: "Michael Newdow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88"
    title: "مايكل نيودو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Newdow"
    title: "Michael Newdow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%8C%D1%8E%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%83%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Ньюдоу, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Newdow"
    title: "Michael Newdow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84_%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "مایکل نیوداو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1786876"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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