# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-harpur
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:04:42.325Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-harpur"
name: "Tom Harpur"
slug: "tom-harpur"
description: "Thomas William Harpur was a Canadian biblical scholar, columnist, and broadcaster. An ordained Anglican priest, he was a proponent of the Christ myth theory, the idea that Jesus did not exist but is a fictional or mythological figure. He was the author of a number of books, including For Christ's Sake (1986), Life after Death (1996), The Pagan Christ (2004), and Born Again."
tagline: "Canadian author, broadcaster, columnist and theologian (1929-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Photo_of_Tom_Harpur_by_Hugh_Wesley.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1929-04-14"
deathDate: "2017-01-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.811232
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://tomharpur.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Harpur"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "توم هارپور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Harpur"
    title: "Tom Harpur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "تام هارپور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Harpur"
    title: "Tom Harpur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Harpur"
    title: "Tom Harpur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Harpur"
    title: "Tom Harpur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%A4%E5%A7%86%C2%B7%E5%93%88%E6%99%AE%E5%B0%94"
    title: "汤姆·哈普尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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