# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mehran-karimi-nasseri
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:29:19.005Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mehran-karimi-nasseri"
name: "Mehran Karimi Nasseri"
slug: "mehran-karimi-nasseri"
description: "Mehran Karimi Nasseri, also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran, was an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal 1 at Charles de Gaulle Airport from 26 August 1988 until July 2006. Initially stranded due to lack of valid travel documents, he chose to remain at the airport despite being granted residency in Belgium in 1995 and France in 1999."
tagline: "Iranian refugee who spent 18 years in a French airport"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MKNasseri.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945"
deathDate: "2022-11-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           62
  momentum:             8.716637563893293
  historical:           25.13547466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1166606/"
    handle:    "nm1166606"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "مهران كريمي ناصري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "মেহেরান করিমী নাসেরি"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mehran Karimi Nasseri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri"
    title: "Mehran Karimi Nasseri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "מהראן קארימי נאסרי"
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    title: "Մեհրան Քարիմի Նասերի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mehran Karimi Nasseri"
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    title: "Mehran Karimi Nasseri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "マーハン・カリミ・ナセリ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "메흐란 카리미 나세리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mehran Karîmî Nasserî"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehrans_Karimi_Naseri"
    title: "Mehrans Karimi Naseri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merhan_Karimi_Nasseri"
    title: "Merhan Karimi Nasseri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri"
    title: "Mehran Karimi Nasseri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri"
    title: "Mehran Karimi Nasseri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri"
    title: "Mehran Karimi Nasseri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri"
    title: "Mehran Karimi Nasseri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Мехран Карими Нассери"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357951"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2708799"
    title: "Mehran Karimi Nasseri"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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