# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otto-klineberg
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:03:42.228Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/otto-klineberg"
name: "Otto Klineberg"
slug: "otto-klineberg"
description: "Otto Klineberg was a Canadian born psychologist.\nHe held professorships in social psychology at Columbia University and the University of Paris. His pioneering work in the 1930s on the intelligence of white and black students in the United States and his evidence as an expert witness in Delaware were instrumental in winning the Supreme Court school segregation case Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. Through his work in UNESCO and elsewhere, he helped to promote psychology internationally."
tagline: "Canadian psychologist (1899–1992)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1899-11-02"
deathDate: "1992-03-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.38
  momentum:             3.076923076923078
  historical:           5.873794666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Otto Klineberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Klineberg"
    title: "Otto Klineberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Klineberg"
    title: "Otto Klineberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Клайнберг, Отто"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Klineberg"
    title: "Otto Klineberg"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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