# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amanda-lindhout
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:34:12.145Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/amanda-lindhout"
name: "Amanda Lindhout"
slug: "amanda-lindhout"
description: "Amanda Lindhout is a Canadian humanitarian and journalist. On August 23, 2008, she and members of her entourage were kidnapped by Islamist insurgents in southern Somalia. She was released 15 months later on November 25, 2009, and has since embarked on a philanthropic career. In 2013, she released the book, A House in the Sky: A Memoir, in which she recounts her early life, travels as a young adult, and hostage experience. In 2014, the book was optioned to become a major motion picture by Megan Ellison, with Rooney Mara playing the role of Lindhout."
tagline: "Journalist and humanitarian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Amanda_Lindhout_by_Steven_Carty.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1981-06-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.68
  momentum:             25
  historical:           6.758349333333334
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E6%9B%BC%E9%81%94%C2%B7%E7%90%B3%E9%9C%8D%E7%89%B9"
    title: "阿曼達·琳霍特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "أماندا ليندهاوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "اماندا ليندهاوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Lindhout"
    title: "Amanda Lindhout"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Lindhout"
    title: "Amanda Lindhout"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Lindhout"
    title: "Amanda Lindhout"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Lindhout"
    title: "Amanda Lindhout"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4354391"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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