# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jay-bahadur
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:42:17.819Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jay-bahadur"
name: "Jay Bahadur"
slug: "jay-bahadur"
description: "Jay Bahadur is a Canadian journalist and author. He became known for his reporting on piracy in Somalia, writing for The New York Times, The Financial Post, The Globe and Mail, and The Times of London. Bahadur has also worked as a freelance correspondent for CBS News and he has advised the U.S. State Department on piracy. His first book, The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World (2011), is his account of living with the pirates for several months in Puntland, a semi-autonomous region in the northeast of Somalia. Bahadur lives in Nairobi, Kenya."
tagline: "Canadian photographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jay_Bahadur2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1984"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.14
  momentum:             0.5548549810844893
  historical:           5.096798666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4570486/"
    handle:    "nm4570486"
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Bahadur"
    title: "Jay Bahadur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%89_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "چاى باهادور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Bahadur"
    title: "Jay Bahadur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%9C%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%B9%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%81%E0%B5%BC"
    title: "ജയ് ബഹാദുർ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%A2%E0%B9%8C_%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%AE%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%B9%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C"
    title: "เจย์ บาฮาดูร์"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6166363"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1610855"
    title: "Jay Bahadur"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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