# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jason-dunford
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:16:00.166Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jason-dunford"
name: "Jason Dunford"
slug: "jason-dunford"
description: "Jason Edward Dunford, OGW, OLY, also known as Samaki Mkuu, is a Kenyan Olympic swimmer, media personality, rapper and entrepreneur. During his swimming career he was predominantly a butterfly and freestyle sprinter winning gold medals at the Commonwealth Games, Universiade, All-Africa Games and African Championships, and reaching finals at the Olympics, World Championships and Short Course World Championships. He also held African, Universiade and Olympic records. He has worked as a broadcast journalist for the BBC, is a co-founder and adviser to software company, Safi, and is the CEO of Baila Entertainment whilst performing as Samaki Mkuu, one half of the rap duo Romantico & Samaki Mkuu."
tagline: "Kenyan Olympic swimmer, media personality, rapper and entrepreneur"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jason_Dunford.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1986-11-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.2
  momentum:             6.071428571428572
  historical:           8.947013333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Джейсон Данфорд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Dunford"
    title: "Jason Dunford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Dunford"
    title: "Jason Dunford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "جیسون دانفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Dunford"
    title: "Jason Dunford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Dunford"
    title: "Jason Dunford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Dunford"
    title: "Jason Dunford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Dunford"
    title: "Jason Dunford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Данфорд, Джейсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Dunford"
    title: "Jason Dunford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q746257"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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