# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-engel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:07:34.557Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-engel"
name: "Richard Engel"
slug: "richard-engel"
description: "Richard Engel is an American journalist and author who is the chief foreign correspondent for NBC News. He was assigned to that position on April 18, 2008, after serving as the network's Middle East correspondent and Beirut bureau chief. Before joining NBC in May 2003, Engel reported on the start of the 2003 war in Iraq for ABC News as a freelance journalist in Baghdad."
tagline: "American television journalist and war correspondent"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Engel_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1973-09-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.86
  momentum:             5.878036437246965
  historical:           5.892566666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/richardengel"
    handle:    "richardengel"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1521634/"
    handle:    "nm1521634"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Engel"
    title: "Richard Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A5%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%84"
    title: "ريتشارد إنجل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%84"
    title: "ريتشارد انجل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Engel"
    title: "Richard Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Engel"
    title: "Richard Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Engel"
    title: "Richard Engel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2487492"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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