# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-harris
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:10:56.758Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-harris"
name: "Sam Harris"
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description: "Samuel Benjamin Harris is an American neuroscientist, philosopher, author, and podcast host. His work includes a range of topics, including rationality, religion, ethics, free will, determinism, neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics, philosophy of mind, politics, terrorism, and artificial intelligence. Harris came to prominence for his criticism of religion, and he is known as one of the \"Four Horsemen\" of New Atheism, along with Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett."
tagline: "American author, philosopher and neuroscientist (born 1967)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1967-04-09"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill