# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-dabydeen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:26:49.988Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-dabydeen"
name: "David Dabydeen"
slug: "david-dabydeen"
description: "David Dabydeen FRSL is a Guyanese-born broadcaster, novelist, poet and academic. He was formerly Guyana's Ambassador to UNESCO from 1997 to 2010, and was the youngest Member of the UNESCO Executive Board (1993–1997), elected by the General Council of all Member States of UNESCO. He was appointed Guyana's Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinaire to China, from 2010 to 2015. He is one of the longest serving diplomats in the history of Guyana, most of his work done in a voluntary unpaid capacity. He is a cousin of Guyana-born Canadian writer Cyril Dabydeen."
tagline: "Guyanese writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-12-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.483478666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1620529/"
    handle:    "nm1620529"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ديڤيد دابيدين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dabydeen"
    title: "David Dabydeen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dabydeen"
    title: "David Dabydeen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%80%E0%B5%BB"
    title: "ഡേവിഡ് ഡേബിഡീൻ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dabydeen"
    title: "David Dabydeen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4"
    title: "Дэбидин, Дэвид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Dabydeen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B4_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B1%D1%96%D0%B4%D1%96%D0%BD"
    title: "Девід Дебідін"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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