# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-stryker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:00:13.074Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-stryker"
name: "Roy Stryker"
slug: "roy-stryker"
description: "Roy Emerson Stryker was an American economist, government official, and photographer. He headed the Information Division of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression, and launched the documentary photography program of the FSA. It hired photographers to travel across the United States and document people in different areas and settings as part of showing the state of people in rural areas in those years. Specific projects were conceived to help assess effects of government programs."
tagline: "American photographer (1893–1975)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roy-Stryker-August-1938-cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1893-11-05"
deathDate: "1975-09-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46
  momentum:             5.219061801935963
  historical:           9.815732
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Roy Stryker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Stryker"
    title: "Roy Stryker"
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    title: "روى ستريكير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Roy Stryker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Roy Stryker"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Stryker"
    title: "Roy Stryker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B1"
    title: "روی استرایکر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Stryker"
    title: "Roy Stryker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%99_%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%A8"
    title: "רוי סטרייקר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Stryker"
    title: "Roy Stryker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%AD%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Страйкер, Рой Эмерсон"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump