# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenneth-bae
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:07:26.327Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenneth-bae"
name: "Kenneth Bae"
slug: "kenneth-bae"
description: "Kenneth Bae is a South Korean-born American Evangelical Christian missionary. Convicted by North Korea on charges of planning to overthrow the government, he was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment in April 2013. Bae was released on November 8, 2014, along with fellow American Matthew Todd Miller."
tagline: "American missionary held as prisoner in North Korea"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kenneth_Bae_en_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
birthDate: "1968-08-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.72
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.474381333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kenneth_Bae"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "كينيث باى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Bae"
    title: "Kenneth Bae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Bae"
    title: "Kenneth Bae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Bae"
    title: "Kenneth Bae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BC%80%EB%84%A4%EC%8A%A4_%EB%B0%B0"
    title: "케네스 배"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennethus_Bae"
    title: "Kennethus Bae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Bae"
    title: "Kenneth Bae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A3%B4%E5%9F%88%E7%9A%93"
    title: "裴埈皓"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kenneth_Bae"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15284345"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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