# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/farid-esack
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:59:29.375Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/farid-esack"
name: "Farid Esack"
slug: "farid-esack"
description: "Farid Esack is a South African Muslim scholar, writer, and political activist known for his opposition to apartheid, his appointment by Nelson Mandela as a gender equity commissioner, and his work for inter-religious dialogue."
tagline: "South African activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Farid_Esack.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1955-03-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.9
  momentum:             0.4716981132075472
  historical:           8.549317333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  212
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6280055/"
    handle:    "nm6280055"
sources:
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    title: "فرید اسحاق"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فريد إيساك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%82"
    title: "فريد اسحاق"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A6_%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%95"
    title: "ফরিদ এসাক"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farid_Esack"
    title: "Farid Esack"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farid_Esack"
    title: "Farid Esack"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farid_Esack"
    title: "Farid Esack"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farid_Esack"
    title: "Farid Esack"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farid_Esack"
    title: "Farid Esack"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farid_Esack"
    title: "Farid Esack"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1396678"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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