# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-damas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:47:00.571Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-damas"
name: "Léon Damas"
slug: "leon-damas"
description: "Léon-Gontran Damas was a French poet and politician. He was one of the founders of the Négritude movement. He also used the pseudonym Lionel Georges André Cabassou."
tagline: "French poet and politician (1912–1978)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CLR_James_and_L%C3%A9on_Damas%2C_2nd_Congress_of_African_People%2C_San_Diego%2C_1972_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1912-03-28"
deathDate: "1978-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.788273615635178
  historical:           18.51735466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump