# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rudolph-rummel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:00:02.772Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rudolph-rummel"
name: "Rudolph Rummel"
slug: "rudolph-rummel"
description: "Rudolph Joseph Rummel was an American political scientist, a statistician and professor at Indiana University, Yale University, and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He spent his career studying data on collective violence and war with a view toward helping their resolution or elimination. Contrasting genocide, Rummel coined the term democide for murder by government, such as the genocide of indigenous peoples and colonialism, Nazi Germany, the Stalinist purges, Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, and other authoritarian, totalitarian, or undemocratic regimes, coming to the conclusion that democratic regimes result in the least democides."
tagline: "American academic (1932–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RJRummel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-10-21"
deathDate: "2014-03-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump