# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eudy-simelane
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:11:56.727Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eudy-simelane"
name: "Eudy Simelane"
slug: "eudy-simelane"
description: "Eudy Simelane was a South African footballer who played for the South African national team and was an LGBT rights activist. She was one of the first lesbian women to live openly in KwaThema, Springs, Gauteng. Because of this, she was gang raped—in what was called corrective rape—and murdered at the age of 31."
tagline: "South African footballer (1977–2008)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/Eudy_Simelane_photograph.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1977-03-11"
deathDate: "2008-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.23
  momentum:             24.83218588640275
  historical:           20.29925733333334
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  178
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Eudy Simelane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudy_Simelane"
    title: "Eudy Simelane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "يودي سميلان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "يودى سميلان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8"
    title: "ইউডি সিমেলেন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eudy Simelane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudy_Simelane"
    title: "Eudy Simelane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudy_Simelane"
    title: "Eudy Simelane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudy_Simelane"
    title: "Eudy Simelane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudy_Simelane"
    title: "Eudy Simelane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "یودی سیملان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eudy Simelane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudy_Simelane"
    title: "Eudy Simelane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudy_Simelane"
    title: "Eudy Simelane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%95%D7%93%D7%99_%D7%A1%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9F"
    title: "אודי סמליין"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Էուդի Սիմելանե"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudy_Simelane"
    title: "Eudy Simelane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudy_Simelane"
    title: "Eudy Simelane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eudy Simelane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudy_Simelane"
    title: "Eudy Simelane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Симелане, Эуди"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://st.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudy_Simelane"
    title: "Eudy Simelane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudy_Simelane"
    title: "Eudy Simelane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AE%D0%B4%D1%96_%D0%A1%D1%96%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Юді Сімелан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudy_Simelane"
    title: "Eudy Simelane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q262503"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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