# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/manuel-zelaya
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:24:32.939Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/manuel-zelaya"
name: "Manuel Zelaya"
slug: "manuel-zelaya"
description: "José Manuel Zelaya Rosales is a Honduran politician who served as the 35th president of Honduras from 2006 until his forcible removal in the 2009 coup d'état; and as the inaugural first gentleman of Honduras from 2022 until 2026. He is the eldest son of a wealthy businessman, and inherited his father's nickname \"Mel\". Before entering politics he was involved in his family's logging and timber businesses."
tagline: "Honduran politician and businessman (born 1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Manuel_Zelaya_2022.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1952-09-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  65
  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