# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/foday-sankoh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:59:47.505Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/foday-sankoh"
name: "Foday Sankoh"
slug: "foday-sankoh"
description: "Foday Saybana Sankoh was a Sierra Leonean rebel leader who was the founder and commander of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel group, which was supported by the Charles Taylor-led NPFL in the 11-year-long Sierra Leone Civil War, starting in 1991 and ending in 2002. An estimated 50,000 people were killed during the war, and over 500,000 people were displaced into neighboring countries."
tagline: "Sierra Leonean warlord (1937-2003)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/Foday_Sankoh.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1937-10-17"
deathDate: "2003-07-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.15
  momentum:             0.598368087035358
  historical:           17.85073466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "福迪·桑科"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فوداي سنكوح"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فوداى سنكوح"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Foday Sankoh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foday_Sankoh"
    title: "Foday Sankoh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foday_Sankoh"
    title: "Foday Sankoh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foday_Sankoh"
    title: "Foday Sankoh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foday_Sankoh"
    title: "Foday Sankoh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foday_Sankoh"
    title: "Foday Sankoh"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foday_Sankoh"
    title: "Foday Sankoh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Foday Sankoh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Foday Sankoh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foday_Sankoh"
    title: "Foday Sankoh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "포다이 상코"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Foday Sankoh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foday_Sankoh"
    title: "Foday Sankoh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Foday Sankoh"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q443070"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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