# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bethany-hamilton
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:26:32.323Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bethany-hamilton"
name: "Bethany Hamilton"
slug: "bethany-hamilton"
description: "Bethany Meilani Hamilton is an American professional surfer and writer. On October 31, 2003, she survived a shark attack in which her left arm was bitten off; ultimately, she returned to professional surfing and wrote about her experiences in the 2004 autobiography, Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board. The book was adapted into the 2011 feature film, Soul Surfer. Hamilton attributes her strength to her Christian faith."
tagline: "American surfer (born 1990)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bethany_Hamilton_speaking_at_Ellsworth_Air_Force_Base_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1990-02-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           25.388512
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump