# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ola-rotimi
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:00:06.976Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ola-rotimi"
name: "Ola Rotimi"
slug: "ola-rotimi"
description: "Olawale Gladstone Emmanuel Rotimi, best known as Ola Rotimi, was one of Nigeria's leading playwrights and theatre directors. He has been called \"a complete man of the theatre – an actor, director, choreographer and designer – who created performance spaces, influenced by traditional architectural forms.\""
tagline: "Nigerian playwright (1938–2000)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Statue_of_Prof._Ola_Rotimi_in_Ile-Ife.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-04-13"
deathDate: "2000-08-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.76
  momentum:             3.763888888888889
  historical:           7.102342666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%89"
    title: "اولا روتيمى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ola_Rotimi"
    title: "Ola Rotimi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ola_Rotimi"
    title: "Ola Rotimi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ola_Rotimi"
    title: "Ola Rotimi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ola_Rotimi"
    title: "Ola Rotimi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ola_Rotimi"
    title: "Ola Rotimi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%85%DB%8C"
    title: "اولا روٹیمی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ola_Rotimi"
    title: "Ola Rotimi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1684073"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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