# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bobby-sands
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:30:59.221Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bobby-sands"
name: "Bobby Sands"
slug: "bobby-sands"
description: "Robert Gerard Sands was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland. Sands helped to plan the 1976 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing in Dunmurry, which was followed by a gun battle with the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Sands was arrested while trying to escape and sentenced to 14 years for firearms possession."
tagline: "Activist of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (1954-1981)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/Bobbysandslongkesh1973.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1954-03-09"
deathDate: "1981-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 236
platforms:
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    handle:    "ch0105210"
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    url:       "https://www.bobbysandstrust.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump