# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-j-freyd
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:16:06.217Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-j-freyd"
name: "Peter J. Freyd"
slug: "peter-j-freyd"
description: "Peter John Freyd is an American mathematician, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for work in category theory and for founding the False Memory Syndrome Foundation after his daughter confronted him about sexually abusing her as a child and teenager."
tagline: "American mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Freyd.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1936-02-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.75
  momentum:             8.486707566462167
  historical:           7.699210666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Freyd"
    title: "Peter Freyd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_J._Freyd"
    title: "Peter J. Freyd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_J._Freyd"
    title: "Peter J. Freyd"
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    title: "Peter Freyd"
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    title: "Peter Freyd"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump