# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francois-bizot
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:51:41.173Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francois-bizot"
name: "François Bizot"
slug: "francois-bizot"
description: "François Bizot is a French anthropologist. While working as a conservationist in Cambodia, he was held captive by the Khmer Rouge for several months. He was released after being found innocent of spying charges, becoming the only Westerner to survive imprisonment by the Khmer Rouge."
tagline: "French anthropologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paris_-_Salon_du_livre_2012_-_Fran%C3%A7ois_Bizot_-_001.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1940-02-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.2
  momentum:             13.9113262248089
  historical:           9.016529333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "فرانسوا بيزوت"
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    title: "François Bizot"
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    title: "François Bizot"
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    title: "François Bizot"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Bizot"
    title: "François Bizot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Bizot"
    title: "François Bizot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Бизо, Франсуа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "François Bizot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "弗朗索瓦·比佐"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump