# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-speight
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:52:15.428Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-speight"
name: "George Speight"
slug: "george-speight"
description: "George Speight, also known by his pseudonym Ilikimi Naitini, is a Fijian businessman and politician who was the leader of the 2000 Fijian coup d'état, in which he and rebel soldiers from Fiji's Counter Revolutionary Warfare Unit seized the Fijian Parliament and held Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and 35 other MP's hostage from 19 May 2000 to 13 July 2000. He was convicted of treason in February 2002 and served a sentence of life imprisonment until receiving a presidential pardon on 18 September 2024."
tagline: "Fijian politician"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1957"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.49
  momentum:             15.88192419825073
  historical:           6.387081333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Speight"
    title: "George Speight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%BF%CF%81%CF%84%CE%B6_%CE%A3%CF%80%CE%AD%CE%B9%CF%84"
    title: "Τζορτζ Σπέιτ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Speight"
    title: "George Speight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Speight"
    title: "George Speight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Speight"
    title: "George Speight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Speight"
    title: "George Speight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Speight"
    title: "George Speight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3101930"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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