# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/newton-n-minow
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:36:58.620Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/newton-n-minow"
name: "Newton N. Minow"
slug: "newton-n-minow"
description: "Newton Norman Minow was an American attorney who served as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He is famous for his 1961 speech referring to television as a \"vast wasteland\". While still maintaining a law practice, Minow served as the honorary consul general of Singapore in Chicago, beginning in 2001."
tagline: "United States attorney and former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Newton_Minow_2006.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "public-official"
birthDate: "1926-01-17"
deathDate: "2023-05-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "نيوتون ان. مينو"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump