# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marlon-samuels
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:38:02.886Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marlon-samuels"
name: "Marlon Samuels"
slug: "marlon-samuels"
description: "Marlon Nathaniel Samuels is a Jamaican former cricketer who played internationally for the West Indies in all three formats, and a former ODI captain. He is a right-handed middle order batsman and off-spinner. He was a key member of the West Indies team that won the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 and 2016 ICC World Twenty20, and was named man of the match in the final of both tournaments, becoming the first, and to-date the only, man to achieve the feat."
tagline: "Jamaican cricketer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chicago_Tornadoes_Marlon_Samuels.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1981-02-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.125094666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "mnsamuels"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump