# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-adamson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:45:32.925Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-adamson"
name: "George Adamson"
slug: "george-adamson"
description: "George Alexander Graham Adamson MBE, also known as the Baba ya Simba, was a British wildlife conservationist and author, based in Kenya. His wife Joy Adamson related in her best-selling book Born Free (1960) the couple's life with Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned cub they raised and later released into the wild."
tagline: "British naturalist, writer and Wildlife conservationist (1906–1989)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA_-_George_Adamson.jpg/330px-%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA_-_George_Adamson.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1906-02-03"
deathDate: "1989-08-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.39446666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0011487"
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    url:       "http://www.georgeadamson.org"
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    title: "George Adamson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump