# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vincent-ostrom
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:40:40.696Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vincent-ostrom"
name: "Vincent Ostrom"
slug: "vincent-ostrom"
description: "Vincent Alfred Ostrom was an American political economist, the founding director of the Ostrom Workshop based at Indiana University, and the Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of Political Science. He and his wife, the political economist Elinor Ostrom, made numerous contributions to the field of political science, political economy, and public choice."
tagline: "American academic, educator and political scientist (1919–2012)"
gender: "male"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1919-09-25"
deathDate: "2012-06-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations