# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-royko
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:48:45.389Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-royko"
name: "Mike Royko"
slug: "mike-royko"
description: "Michael Royko Jr. was an American newspaper columnist from Chicago, Illinois. Over his 42-year career, he wrote more than 7,500 daily columns for the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune. A humorist whose writing spanned a broad range of topics, he was the winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary."
tagline: "American writer and newspaper columnist (1932-1997)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/Mike_Royko.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1932-09-19"
deathDate: "1997-04-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.001589333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Майк Ройко"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "مايك رويكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "مايك رويكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Royko"
    title: "Mike Royko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Royko"
    title: "Mike Royko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B3"
    title: "マイク・ロイコ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Royko"
    title: "Mike Royko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Royko"
    title: "Mike Royko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BE%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA"
    title: "Ройко, Майк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Royko"
    title: "Mike Royko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1771302"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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