# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christophe-gbenye
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:37:19.764Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christophe-gbenye"
name: "Christophe Gbenye"
slug: "christophe-gbenye"
description: "Christophe Gbenye was a Congolese politician, trade unionist, and rebel who, along with Gaston Soumialot, led the Simba rebellion, an anti-government insurrection in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the Congo Crisis, between 1964 and 1965."
tagline: "Congolese politician (1927-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Christophe_Gbenye_as_President_of_the_People's_Republic_of_the_Congo_(crop).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1927"
deathDate: "2015-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.93
  momentum:             3.183682812929219
  historical:           7.452056000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Gbenye"
    title: "Christophe Gbenye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Gbenye"
    title: "Christophe Gbenye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Gbenye"
    title: "Christophe Gbenye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristophe_Gbenye"
    title: "Cristophe Gbenye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Gbenye"
    title: "Christophe Gbenye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Gbenye"
    title: "Christophe Gbenye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Gbenye"
    title: "Christophe Gbenye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5%2C_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%84"
    title: "Гбение, Кристоф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1086333"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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