# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daniel-kish
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:52:56.845Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/daniel-kish"
name: "Daniel Kish"
slug: "daniel-kish"
description: "Daniel Kish is an American expert in human echolocation and the President of World Access for the Blind (WAFTB), a California-registered nonprofit organization founded by Kish in 2000 to facilitate \"the self-directed achievement of people with all forms of blindness\" and increase public awareness about their strengths and capabilities. Kish and his organization have taught a form of echolocation to at least 500 blind children around the world."
tagline: "American educator; expert in human echolocation"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Daniel_Kish_-_PopTech_2011_-_Camden_Maine_USA_3.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1966"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.21
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.263432
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://waftb.org/"
sources:
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    title: "丹尼爾·基許"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kish"
    title: "Daniel Kish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kish"
    title: "Daniel Kish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A9"
    title: "דניאל קיש"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%88%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%BB"
    title: "Киш, Дэниел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B7%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "డేనియల్ కిష్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%9A%D1%96%D1%88"
    title: "Деніел Кіш"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ڈینیئل کیش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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