# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-marcy
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:38:07.905Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-marcy"
name: "Sam Marcy"
slug: "sam-marcy"
description: "Sam Ballan, known by his pen name Sam Marcy, was an American lawyer, writer, historian, and Trotskyist activist of the post-World War II era. He co-founded the Workers World Party in 1959 and served as its chairperson until his death."
tagline: "Marxist writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1911"
deathDate: "1998-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.713574666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Marcy"
    title: "Sam Marcy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A"
    title: "سام مارسي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%89"
    title: "سام مارسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%90%A8%E5%A7%86%C2%B7%E9%A9%AC%E8%A5%BF"
    title: "萨姆·马西"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Marcy"
    title: "Sam Marcy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BC_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B8"
    title: "Сэм Марси"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3946340"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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