# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-donaldson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:24:12.746Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-donaldson"
name: "Sam Donaldson"
slug: "sam-donaldson"
description: "Samuel Andrew Donaldson Jr. is an American retired television reporter and news anchor. He broadcast with ABC News from 1967 to 2009. He was well known as the White House Correspondent with a booming loud voice, which could get the attention of President Reagan, amazingly cutting through the noise of whirling helicopter blades. He was a panelist and co-anchor of Sunday's This Week on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Donaldson_Sam.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1934-03-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.45
  momentum:             5.830055074744296
  historical:           5.916105333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0232152/"
    handle:    "nm0232152"
sources:
  - url: "https://guw.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sam_Donaldson"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "سام دونالدسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Donaldson"
    title: "Sam Donaldson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%83%98_%EB%8F%84%EB%84%90%EB%93%9C%EC%8A%A8"
    title: "샘 도널드슨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Donaldson"
    title: "Sam Donaldson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sam_Donaldson"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7407424"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/117538"
    title: "Sam Donaldson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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