# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-lafeber
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:14:57.977Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-lafeber"
name: "Walter LaFeber"
slug: "walter-lafeber"
description: "Walter Fredrick LaFeber was an American academic who served as the Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History at Cornell University. Previous to that he served as the Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell."
tagline: "American historian (1933-2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walter_LaFeber_in_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1933-08-30"
deathDate: "2021-03-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.785714285714285
  historical:           6.814112
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1508020"
sources:
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    title: "والٹر لا فیبر"
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    title: "والتر لافيبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Walter LaFeber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Walter LaFeber"
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    title: "Лафибер, Уолтер"
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    title: "Walter LaFeber"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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