# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-h-rossi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:03:57.395Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-h-rossi"
name: "Peter H. Rossi"
slug: "peter-h-rossi"
description: "Peter Henry Rossi was a prominent sociologist best known for his research on the origin of homelessness, and documenting the changing face of American homelessness in the 1980s. Rossi was also known for his work devising ways to evaluate federally funded initiatives in education, health services, crime control, and housing. He influentially applied his sociological expertise to affect related policy-making and funding agencies. At his death, he was the Stuart A. Rice professor emeritus of Sociology and the director emeritus of the Social and Demographic Research Institute (SADRI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst."
tagline: "American sociologist (1921–2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PeterHRossi1963.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1921-12-27"
deathDate: "2006-10-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.27
  momentum:             18.23741007194245
  historical:           5.939957333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Peter H. Rossi"
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    title: "بيتر إتش روسي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بيتر اتش روسى"
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    title: "پیتر هانس روسی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H._Rossi"
    title: "Peter H. Rossi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H._Rossi"
    title: "Peter H. Rossi"
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  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H._Rossi"
    title: "Peter H. Rossi"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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