# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-dean
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:36:37.025Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-dean"
name: "Charles Dean"
slug: "charles-dean"
description: "Charles Dean and Neil Sharman were American and Australian citizens, respectively, travelling through Southeast Asia on a backpacking trip in 1974 when they were kidnapped and killed by Communist guerillas. Charles \"Charlie\" Dean was the brother of future U.S. politician and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, Democracy for America Chairman Jim Dean, and political activist Bill Dean. Neil Sharman, was a journalist taking time off from his career to see the world. The two were captured and killed by the Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas."
tagline: "American murder victim"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/Charles_Dean_AP.jpg"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1950"
deathDate: "1974"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.38
  momentum:             5.056360708534623
  historical:           2.43366
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  36
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Charles_Dean_and_Neil_Sharman"
    title: "Killing of Charles Dean and Neil Sharman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%E1%BB%A5_s%C3%A1t_h%E1%BA%A1i_Charles_Dean_v%C3%A0_Neil_Sharman"
    title: "Vụ sát hại Charles Dean và Neil Sharman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5076797"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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