# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-breen
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:46:57.061Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-breen"
name: "Walter Breen"
slug: "walter-breen"
description: "Walter Henry Breen Jr. was an American numismatist, writer, and convicted child sex offender. He was known among coin collectors for writing Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins; \"Breen numbers\", from his encyclopedia, are widely used to attribute varieties of coins. He was also known for activity in the science fiction fan community and for his writings in defense of pederasty as a NAMBLA activist. He was arrested in 1990 for child sex abuse and died in prison three years later."
tagline: "American numismatist, writer and convicted child sex offender (1928-1993)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f1/Walter_Breen.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1928-09-05"
deathDate: "1993-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.743532
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "والتر إتش برين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "والتر اتش برين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Breen"
    title: "Walter Breen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Breen"
    title: "Walter Breen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Breen"
    title: "Walter Breen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7965022"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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