# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-wallis
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:42:03.690Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-wallis"
name: "Roy Wallis"
slug: "roy-wallis"
description: "Roy Wallis (1945–1990) was a sociologist and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Queen's University Belfast. He is mostly known for his creation of the seven signs that differentiate a religious congregation from a sectarian church, which he created while researching the Church of Scientology. He introduced the distinction between world-affirming and world-rejecting new religious movements."
tagline: "Critic of Scientology (1945–1990)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1945"
deathDate: "1990"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.672390666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Wallis"
    title: "Roy Wallis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Wallis"
    title: "Roy Wallis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "روي واليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%81"
    title: "Рой Волліс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B9"
    title: "Уоллис, Рой"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Wallis"
    title: "Roy Wallis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2340568"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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