# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-jonas
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:25:48.136Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-jonas"
name: "George Jonas"
slug: "george-jonas"
description: "George Jonas, CM was a Hungarian-born Canadian writer, poet, and journalist. A self-described classical liberal, he authored 16 books, including the bestseller Vengeance (1984), the story of an Israeli operation to kill the terrorists responsible for the 1972 Munich massacre. The book has been adapted for film twice, first as Sword of Gideon (1986) and as Munich (2005)."
tagline: "Canadian-Hungarian writer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/George_Jonas_interview_2008_by_Moe_Belli.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1935-06-15"
deathDate: "2016-01-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.76
  momentum:             14.64471724784374
  historical:           6.173977333333334
  currentAttention:     19.01140684410647
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.georgejonas.ca/"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jonas"
    title: "George Jonas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "جورج جوناس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jonas"
    title: "George Jonas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jonas"
    title: "George Jonas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jonas"
    title: "George Jonas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Jonas"
    title: "George Jonas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1450874"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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