# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-alexander
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:50:12.562Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-alexander"
name: "Paul Alexander"
slug: "paul-alexander"
description: "He spent 72 years inside an iron lung — longer than anyone in recorded history — and still managed to pass the bar."
tagline: "American lawyer and polio survivor (1946–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Alexander_(polio_survivor).jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-01-30"
deathDate: "2024-03-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.325
  historical:           23.98768266666667
  currentAttention:     10.23076923076923
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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  - name: "Americas"
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  - name: "20th Century"
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    title: "폴 알렉산더"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Alexander (peguam)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Alexander (prawnik)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Alexander"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Alexander (jurist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "พอล อเล็กซานเดอร์"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paul Alexander"
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    title: "بول ألكسندر (محامي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Paul Richard Alexander contracted polio in 1952 at six years old and never left the machine that kept him breathing. Decades later, confined but not stopped, he earned a bachelor's degree and a Juris Doctor at the University of Texas at Austin, then was admitted to the bar in 1986. He practiced law, self-published a memoir in 2020, and late in life found an audience on TikTok. He died on March 11, 2024, having lived nearly all his 78 years in a cylinder of steel and determination.