# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-ebeling
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:14:54.739Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-ebeling"
name: "Richard Ebeling"
slug: "richard-ebeling"
description: "Richard M. Ebeling is an American libertarian author who was the president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) from 2003 to 2008. Ebeling is currently the BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina."
tagline: "American economist"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1950-01-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             16.84536082474227
  historical:           7.010368
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Richard Ebeling"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Річард Ебелінг"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump