# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-chilembwe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:55:04.001Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-chilembwe"
name: "John Chilembwe"
slug: "john-chilembwe"
description: "John Chilembwe was a Baptist pastor, educator and revolutionary from Nyasaland who trained as a minister in the United States, returning to Nyasaland in 1901. He was an early figure in the resistance to colonialism in Nyasaland, opposing both the treatment of Africans working in agriculture on European-owned plantations and the colonial government's failure to promote the social and political advancement of Africans. Soon after the outbreak of the First World War, Chilembwe organised an unsuccessful armed uprising against colonial rule, and was killed shortly thereafter by colonial forces. Today, Chilembwe is celebrated as a hero of independence in some African countries, and John Chilembwe Day is observed annually on 15 January in Malawi."
tagline: "Independence leader in Malawi"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chilembwe_and_family_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1871"
deathDate: "1915-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4913769504516835
  historical:           16.440824
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump