# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/riaan-cruywagen
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:46:27.022Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/riaan-cruywagen"
name: "Riaan Cruywagen"
slug: "riaan-cruywagen"
description: "Riaan Cruywagen is a South African television news reader and voice artist who has been associated with the South African Broadcasting Corporation since its first television broadcasts in 1975. Cruywagen continued to present the Afrikaans news on the SABC network every weeknight until his final broadcast on SABC 2 on 26 November 2012 at 7pm CAT. He has made approximately 7000 news broadcasts."
tagline: "South African journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Riaan_Cruywagen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1945-10-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.288554666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1795065/"
    handle:    "nm1795065"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riaan_Cruywagen"
    title: "Riaan Cruywagen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riaan_Cruywagen"
    title: "Riaan Cruywagen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ريان كرويواجين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riaan_Cruywagen"
    title: "Riaan Cruywagen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riaan_Cruywagen"
    title: "Riaan Cruywagen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2451834"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1203566"
    title: "Riaan Cruywagen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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