# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-wiseman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:22:33.712Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-wiseman"
name: "Richard Wiseman"
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description: "Richard John Wiseman is a professor of the public understanding of psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. He has written several psychology books. He has given keynote addresses to the Royal Society, the Swiss Economic Forum, Google and Amazon. He is a fellow for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a patron of Humanists UK. Wiseman is also the creator of the YouTube channels Quirkology and In59Seconds."
tagline: "British psychologist"
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birthDate: "1966-09-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump