# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francois-ponchaud
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:27:21.197Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francois-ponchaud"
name: "François Ponchaud"
slug: "francois-ponchaud"
description: "François Ponchaud was a French Catholic priest and missionary to Cambodia. He was best known for his documentation of the genocide which occurred under the Khmer Rouge (KR), and for being one of the first people to expose the human rights abuses being carried out at the time."
tagline: "French missionary"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fran%C3%A7ois_Ponchaud_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-02-08"
deathDate: "2025-01-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.7725321888412018
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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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