# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bob-simon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:13:08.311Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bob-simon"
name: "Bob Simon"
slug: "bob-simon"
description: "Robert David Simon was an American television correspondent for CBS News. He covered crises, war, and unrest in 67 countries during his career. Simon reported the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam, the Israeli–Lebanese Conflict in 1982, and the student protests in China's Tiananmen Square in 1989. During the Persian Gulf War in 1991, he and four of his TV crew were captured and imprisoned by Iraq for 40 days. He published a book about the experience titled Forty Days."
tagline: "CBS News television correspondent (1941–2015)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Bob_Simon.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1941-05-29"
deathDate: "2015-02-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.24
  momentum:             10
  historical:           13.128836
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0800082/"
    handle:    "nm0800082"
sources:
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    title: "鮑勃·西蒙"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "بوب سيمون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Simon"
    title: "Bob Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Simon"
    title: "Bob Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Simon"
    title: "Bob Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "باب سیمون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Simon"
    title: "Bob Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%95%D7%91_%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "בוב סיימון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Simon"
    title: "Bob Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Simon"
    title: "Bob Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Simon"
    title: "Bob Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Simon"
    title: "Bob Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q888256"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1230939"
    title: "Bob Simon"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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