# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gideon-byamugisha
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:23:10.258Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gideon-byamugisha"
name: "Gideon Byamugisha"
slug: "gideon-byamugisha"
description: "Reverend Canon Gideon Byamugisha is an Anglican priest in Uganda with a parish outside of Kampala. In 1992, he became the first religious leader in Africa to publicly announce that he was HIV positive. In 2009, Byamugisha received the 26th annual Niwano Peace Prize \"in recognition of his work to uphold the dignity and human rights of people living with HIV/AIDS\"."
tagline: "Ugandan activist and Anglican priest"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gideon_Byamugisha_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1959"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.47
  momentum:             1.666666666666667
  historical:           4.203456
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Gideon Byamugisha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Byamugisha"
    title: "Gideon Byamugisha"
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  - url: "https://lg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Byamugisha"
    title: "Gideon Byamugisha"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Byamugisha"
    title: "Gideon Byamugisha"
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    title: "Gideon Byamugisha"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump