# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-yancey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:27:59.740Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-yancey"
name: "Philip Yancey"
slug: "philip-yancey"
description: "Philip David Yancey is a retired American Christian author known for his works about spiritual issues. His books have sold more than 15 million copies in English and have been translated into 40 languages, making him one of the best-selling contemporary Christian authors. Two of his books won the ECPA's Christian Book of the Year Award: The Jesus I Never Knew in 1996, and What's So Amazing About Grace? in 1998. He was published by Hachette, HarperCollins Christian Publishing, InterVarsity Press, Rabbit Room Press, and Penguin Random House."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Philip_Yancey.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1949-11-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.01189066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://philipyancey.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Philip Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Yancey"
    title: "Philip Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Yancey"
    title: "Philip Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Yancey"
    title: "Philip Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Yancey"
    title: "Philip Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Philip Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Yancey"
    title: "Philip Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Yancey"
    title: "Philip Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Yancey"
    title: "Philip Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Yancey"
    title: "Philip Yancey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Філіп Янсі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%84%D9%BE_%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%DB%8C"
    title: "فلپ یانسی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q552966"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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