# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-leir
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:13:05.470Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-leir"
name: "Roger Leir"
slug: "roger-leir"
description: "Roger Krevin Leir was an American podiatric surgeon and ufologist best known as an investigator of alleged alien implants. Leir wrote books such as The Aliens and the Scalpel, and appeared on various radio and television shows, including Coast to Coast AM, claiming he had discovered proof of \"non-terrestrial experimentation on man\"."
tagline: "American podiatrist and ufologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roger_K._Leir.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1935-03-21"
deathDate: "2014-03-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.6
  momentum:             3.640750433665947
  historical:           7.046908
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2332135/"
    handle:    "nm2332135"
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Leir"
    title: "Roger Leir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%B1_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "روجر لير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Leir"
    title: "Roger Leir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Leir"
    title: "Roger Leir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_K._Leir"
    title: "Roger K. Leir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Leir"
    title: "Roger Leir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Leir"
    title: "Roger Leir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7358526"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1517606"
    title: "Roger Leir"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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