# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ram-dass
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:30:57.387Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ram-dass"
name: "Ram Dass"
slug: "ram-dass"
description: "Ram Dass, also known as Baba Ram Dass, was an American spiritual teacher, guru of modern yoga, psychologist, and writer. His best-selling 1971 book Be Here Now, which has been described by multiple reviewers as \"seminal\", helped popularize Eastern spirituality and yoga in the West. He authored or co-authored twelve more books on spirituality over the next four decades, including Grist for the Mill (1977), How Can I Help? (1985), and Polishing the Mirror (2013)."
tagline: "American spiritual teacher, author and psychologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ram_Dass.jpg?width=1200"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1931-04-06"
deathDate: "2019-12-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
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  country:  null
  category: 230
totalFollowers: 358000
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump