# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-ressler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:57:04.446Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-ressler"
name: "Robert Ressler"
slug: "robert-ressler"
description: "Robert Kenneth Ressler was an American FBI agent and author. He played a significant role in the psychological profiling of violent offenders in the 1970s and is often credited with coining the term \"serial killer\", though the term is a direct translation of the German term Serienmörder coined in 1930 by Berlin investigator Ernst Gennat. After retiring from the FBI, he authored a number of books on serial murders, and often gave lectures on criminology."
tagline: "FBI agent (1937–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Ressler_2.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-02-21"
deathDate: "2013-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.robertressler.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump