# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-carrier
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:05:09.278Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-carrier"
name: "Richard Carrier"
slug: "richard-carrier"
description: "Richard Cevantis Carrier is an American historian, author, and Christ myth theorist. A longtime contributor to skeptical outlets including The Secular Web and Freethought Blogs, Carrier writes about philosophy and religion in classical antiquity, examining the development of early Christianity from a skeptical perspective and addressing modern debates about religion and morality. He frequently debates the historical basis of the Bible and Christianity and promotes the view that Jesus did not exist in his publications. Carrier's views have been rejected by academic scholarship, and are considered fringe."
tagline: "American historian and philosopher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RichardCarrierSM.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1969-12-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.59885866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1891379/"
    handle:    "nm1891379"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.richardcarrier.info/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ريتشارد كارير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريتشارد كارير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Carrier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Carrier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carrier"
    title: "Richard Carrier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carrier"
    title: "Richard Carrier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Carrier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carrier"
    title: "Richard Carrier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carrier"
    title: "Richard Carrier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Carrier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Carrier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Richard Carrier"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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