# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-dibobe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:29:23.170Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-dibobe"
name: "Martin Dibobe"
slug: "martin-dibobe"
description: "Martin Dibobe was a Cameroon-born train driver in Berlin during the period of the German Empire. He was born in Bonaprise, Cameroon and is presumed to have died in Liberia sometime after 1922. His original name was Quane a Dibobe but he was christened Martin Dibobe by missionaries. At the age of 20 he went to Germany to represent Cameroon at the Great Industrial Exposition of Berlin in 1896 where his role at the Treptower Park was to portray 'African daily life'. Together with many other Africans, all from the then German colonies, he spent six months at the exhibition as an 'exhibit'. When the exhibition ended he stayed in Berlin and started an apprenticeship as an industrial mechanic with the firm Conrad Schultz in Strausberg."
tagline: "Train driver and political activist in the German empire"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Martin_Dibobe_bei_der_Hochbahn_(cropped).jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1876-10-31"
deathDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.47
  momentum:             4.210526315789472
  historical:           4.818684
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Dibobe"
    title: "Martin Dibobe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Dibobe"
    title: "Martin Dibobe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Dibobe"
    title: "Martin Dibobe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Dibobe"
    title: "Martin Dibobe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Dibobe"
    title: "Martin Dibobe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1668238"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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