# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-sobhraj
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:55:27.063Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-sobhraj"
name: "Charles Sobhraj"
slug: "charles-sobhraj"
description: "Charles Sobhraj is a French serial killer, fraudster, and thief whose victims were mainly Western tourists travelling on the hippie trail of South Asia during the 1970s. He is of Sindhi and Vietnamese origin. He was known as the Bikini Killer because of the attire of several of his victims, as well as the Splitting Killer and the Serpent for \"his snake-like ability to avoid detection by authorities\"."
tagline: "French serial killer (1944-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Sobhraj_statue_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1944-04-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             17.78150400544424
  historical:           23.17794533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Charles Sobhraj"
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    title: "Собрадж, Чарльз"
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    title: "Charles Sobhraj"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump