# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-garang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:02:32.178Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-garang"
name: "Joseph Garang"
slug: "joseph-garang"
description: "Joseph Ukel Garang Wel was a South Sudanese Marxist politician, lawyer, and a leading intellectual figure within the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP). He served as the Minister of State for Southern Affairs in the government of the Democratic Republic of Sudan from 1969 until his execution in 1971, following Gaafar Nimeiry’s reaction to a short-lived coup d’état that year against his regime."
tagline: "South Sudanese politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_Garang.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1926"
deathDate: "1971-07-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.96
  momentum:             4.903846153846155
  historical:           10.08189466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "جوزيف قرنق"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چوزيف قرنق"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joseph Garang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Garang"
    title: "Joseph Garang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%81_%DA%AF%D8%B1%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "جوزف گرنگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Garang"
    title: "Joseph Garang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Garang"
    title: "Joseph Garang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Garang"
    title: "Joseph Garang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Garang"
    title: "Joseph Garang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84"
    title: "Гаранг, Джозеф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Garang"
    title: "Joseph Garang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3106767"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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