# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chua-lam
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:03:42.115Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chua-lam"
name: "Chua Lam"
slug: "chua-lam"
description: "Chua Lam was a Hong Kong columnist, food critic and occasional television host. He was also a film producer for the Hong Kong film studio Golden Harvest."
tagline: "Singaporean Hong Kong writer (1941–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E8%94%A1%E3%81%95%E3%82%93.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1941-08-18"
deathDate: "2025-06-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           68.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.940997333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 121
totalFollowers: 205000
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0482585/"
    handle:    "nm0482585"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.bobofanclub.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVIKNX3g6VozgO7RMw8PoGQ"
    handle:    "@chualamcolorfulworld1545"
    followers: 205000
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E8%94%A1%E7%80%BE"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chua_Lam"
    title: "Chua Lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%A2_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "چوآ لام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chua_Lam"
    title: "Chua Lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%94%A1%E7%80%BE"
    title: "蔡瀾"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chua_Lam"
    title: "Chua Lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%94%A1%E6%BE%9C"
    title: "蔡澜"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%94%A1%E7%80%BE"
    title: "蔡瀾"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%94%A1%E7%80%BE"
    title: "蔡瀾"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q842349"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/64903"
    title: "Chua Lam"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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