# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oscar-zeta-acosta
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:58:41.286Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oscar-zeta-acosta"
name: "Oscar Zeta Acosta"
slug: "oscar-zeta-acosta"
description: "Oscar \"Zeta\" Acosta Fierro was a Mexican American attorney, author and activist in the Chicano Movement. He wrote the semi-autobiographical novels Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972) and The Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973), and was friends with American author Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson characterized him as a heavyweight Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in his 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Acosta disappeared in 1974 during a trip in Mexico and is presumed dead."
tagline: "American attorney, politician, novelist and activist (1935-1974)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Oscar_Zeta_Acosta%2C_Las_Vegas_1971.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1935-04-08"
deathDate: "1974-05-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.977403700333637
  historical:           17.82522266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump