# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adebayo-faleti
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:33:40.352Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adebayo-faleti"
name: "Adebayo Faleti"
slug: "adebayo-faleti"
description: "Adebayo Mosobalaje Faleti was Africa's first newscaster, Africa's first stage play director, Nigeria's first film editor and librarian with the first television station in Africa - Western Nigeria Television (WNTV), Nigeria's first Yoruba presenter on television and radio alike, a Nigerian poet, journalist, writer, Nollywood film director and actor. He was also known as a Yoruba translator, a broadcaster, TV exponent and pioneer of the first television station in Africa, Western Nigeria Television (WNTV), now known as the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Archived 2022-07-04 at the Wayback Machine."
tagline: "Nigerian actor (1930–2017)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1930-12-26"
deathDate: "2017-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.02
  momentum:             1.08433734939759
  historical:           9.085026666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  249
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2096900/"
    handle:    "nm2096900"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/4507775"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%89"
    title: "اديبايو فاليتى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adebayo_Faleti"
    title: "Adebayo Faleti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adebayo_Faleti"
    title: "Adebayo Faleti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adebayo_Faleti"
    title: "Adebayo Faleti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adebayo_Faleti"
    title: "Adebayo Faleti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adebayo_Faleti"
    title: "Adebayo Faleti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adebayo_Faleti"
    title: "Adebayo Faleti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kai.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adebayo_Faleti"
    title: "Adebayo Faleti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A8%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%88_%D9%81%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%B9%DB%8C"
    title: "ادیبایو فلیٹی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adeb%C3%A1y%C3%B2_Faleti"
    title: "Adebáyò Faleti"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adebayo_Faleti"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3331538"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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