# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/riad-seif
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:54:17.550Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/riad-seif"
name: "Riad Seif"
slug: "riad-seif"
description: "Riad Seif is a Syrian political dissident and prominent businessman who founded and led the Forum for National Dialogue. Seif was elected to the Parliament of Syria in 1994 as an independent and again in 1998. For several years he owned an Adidas franchise in Damascus. During the Syrian civil war, he was a prominent member of the Syrian opposition and presided for a time the Syrian National Coalition."
tagline: "Syrian politician"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1946-11-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.417820000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%8C%E4%BA%9A%E5%BE%B7%C2%B7%E8%B5%9B%E4%B9%89%E5%A4%AB"
    title: "里亚德·赛义夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B6_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%81"
    title: "رياض سيف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B6_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%81"
    title: "رياض سيف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riad_Seif"
    title: "Riad Seif"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riad_Seif"
    title: "Riad Seif"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B6_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%81"
    title: "ریاض سیف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riad_Se%C3%AFf"
    title: "Riad Seïf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyad_Seyf"
    title: "Riyad Seyf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q169507"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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