# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-matas
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:17:13.630Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-matas"
name: "David Matas"
slug: "david-matas"
description: "David Matas is the senior legal counsel of B'nai Brith Canada who currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He has maintained a private practice in refugee, immigration, and human rights law since 1979, and has published various books and manuscripts."
tagline: "Canadian lawyer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Matas_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-08-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.330097087378641
  historical:           8.550289333333334
  currentAttention:     12.94498381877023
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "大衛·麥塔斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديڤيد ماتاس"
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    title: "David Matas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Matas"
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    title: "David Matas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Matas"
    title: "David Matas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Matas"
    title: "David Matas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Matas"
    title: "David Matas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%8D%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4"
    title: "Мэйтас, Дэвид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Matas"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump