# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dennis-brutus
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:55:04.444Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dennis-brutus"
name: "Dennis Brutus"
slug: "dennis-brutus"
description: "Dennis Vincent Brutus was a South African activist, educator, journalist and poet best known for his campaign to have South Africa banned from the Olympic Games due to its racial policy of apartheid."
tagline: "South African activist and writer (1924–2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dennis_Brutus_(1967).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1924-11-28"
deathDate: "2009-12-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump