# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barney-pityana
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:45:20.752Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barney-pityana"
name: "Barney Pityana"
slug: "barney-pityana"
description: "Nyameko Barney Pityana FKC GCOB is a human rights lawyer and theologian in South Africa. He is an exponent of Black theology."
tagline: "South African lawyer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barney_Pityana.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1945-08-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.408244
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Barney Pityana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%89_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "بارنى پيتيانا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Pityana"
    title: "Barney Pityana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyameko_Barney_Pityana"
    title: "Nyameko Barney Pityana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Pityana"
    title: "Barney Pityana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://st.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Pityana"
    title: "Barney Pityana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ts.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Pityana"
    title: "Barney Pityana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Pityana"
    title: "Barney Pityana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2005877"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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