# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/khieu-samphan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:04:08.098Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/khieu-samphan"
name: "Khieu Samphan"
slug: "khieu-samphan"
description: "Khieu Samphan is a Cambodian former politician, economist, and revolutionary who was Chairman of the State Presidium of Democratic Kampuchea from 1976 until 1979. As such, he served as Cambodia's head of state and was one of the most powerful officials in the Khmer Rouge movement, although Pol Pot remained the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea. On 7 August 2014, along with other members of the regime, he was convicted and received a life sentence for crimes against humanity during the Cambodian genocide, and a further trial found him guilty of genocide in 2018."
tagline: "Cambodian politician and war criminal (born 1931)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Khieu_Samphan_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1931-07-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           23.39895733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm3769938"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump