# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/almas-elman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:15:15.693Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/almas-elman"
name: "Almas Elman"
slug: "almas-elman"
description: "Almaas Elman was a Somali-Canadian humanitarian aid worker, the eldest daughter of a prominent family of humanitarian aid-workers. Her parents were Elman Ali Ahmed and Fartuun Adan. She, her mother and her sisters emigrated to Canada in the early 1990s. Her father was gunned down in 1996. Her mother helped found the Elman Peace Center. One of her sisters Ilwad Elman was a short-listed candidate for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. Her husband, a Somali-Swedish tech entrepreneur, was Zakaria Hersi. They married in 2017."
tagline: "Somali Canadian human rights activist"
gender: "female"
deathDate: "2019-11-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.04
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.941037333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ألماس إلمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaas_Elman"
    title: "Almaas Elman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almas_Elman"
    title: "Almas Elman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaas_Elman"
    title: "Almaas Elman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76112222"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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