# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rafiq-hilmi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:46:37.509Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rafiq-hilmi"
name: "Rafiq Hilmi"
slug: "rafiq-hilmi"
description: "Rafiq Hilmi was a Kurdish historian, writer and politician born in Kirkuk. He was founder of the Kurdish party Hîwa in 1938 and author of many books on the history of Kurdistan and Kurdish language. After attending school in Sulaimania and Baghdad, he continued his studies at the Military Academy and Technical School of Istanbul."
tagline: "Kurdish writer and politician (1898–1960)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1_%DA%95%DB%95%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%82_%D8%AD%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%85%DB%8C.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1898"
deathDate: "1960"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.09
  momentum:             16.32203389830509
  historical:           5.478690666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafiq_Hilmi"
    title: "Rafiq Hilmi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%82_%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A"
    title: "رفيق حلمي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%95%DB%95%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%82_%D8%AD%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%85%DB%8C"
    title: "ڕەفیق حیلمی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ref%C3%AEq_Hilm%C3%AE"
    title: "Refîq Hilmî"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafiq_Hilmi"
    title: "Rafiq Hilmi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%82_%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%85%DB%8C"
    title: "رفیق حلمی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7282687"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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