# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/phillips-brooks
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:12:23.952Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/phillips-brooks"
name: "Phillips Brooks"
slug: "phillips-brooks"
description: "Phillips Brooks was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts. One of the most popular preachers of the Gilded Age, he worked to make the Christian Church more relevant to contemporaries. Among his other accomplishments, he wrote the lyrics of the Christmas hymn \"O Little Town of Bethlehem\"."
tagline: "American clergyman and author, hymnwriter (1835–1893)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Phillips_Brooks.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1835-12-13"
deathDate: "1893-01-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.27594985830031
  historical:           13.645396
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm2273363"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump