# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-bergen
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:46:33.742Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-bergen"
name: "Peter Bergen"
slug: "peter-bergen"
description: "Peter Lampert Bergen is an American journalist, documentary producer, think tank executive, professor, and author, best known for his work on national security and counterterrorism. He has written or edited ten books—three of which were New York Times bestsellers, and four were named among the best non-fiction books of the year by the Washington Post. The books have been translated into 25 languages. He has served as a producer of multiple Emmy-nominated documentaries. Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at the think tank New America, and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. Bergen produced the first televised interview with Osama bin Laden in 1997, in which bin Laden declared war against the United States to a Western audience."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Bergen_2018_(29155769438)_crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1962-12-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.62
  momentum:             0.3973509933774834
  historical:           7.266384
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/peterbergencnn"
    handle:    "peterbergencnn"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2114214/"
    handle:    "nm2114214"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.peterbergen.com"
sources:
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    title: "Peter Bergen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%BA%D9%86"
    title: "بيتر بيرغن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بيتر بيرجن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bergen"
    title: "Peter Bergen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bergen"
    title: "Peter Bergen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bergen"
    title: "Peter Bergen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bergen"
    title: "Peter Bergen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q290908"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/517453"
    title: "Peter Bergen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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