# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/giovanni-spampinato
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:34:16.809Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/giovanni-spampinato"
name: "Giovanni Spampinato"
slug: "giovanni-spampinato"
description: "Giovanni Spampinato was an Italian investigative journalist for the Italian newspaper L'Ora in Ragusa, Province of Ragusa, Sicily, Italy, who brought to attention mafioso Roberto Campria's connection to a murder in February 1972, before his own murder eight months later."
tagline: "Italian journalist (1946–1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Giovanni_Spampinato.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1946-11-06"
deathDate: "1972-10-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.45
  momentum:             13.55769230769231
  historical:           6.154429333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Giovanni_Spampinato"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%88%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "جيوڤانى سپامپيناتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Spampinato"
    title: "Giovanni Spampinato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Spampinato"
    title: "Giovanni Spampinato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Spampinato"
    title: "Giovanni Spampinato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Spampinato"
    title: "Giovanni Spampinato"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuvanni_Spampinatu"
    title: "Giuvanni Spampinatu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3768169"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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