# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruy-castro
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:19:17.770Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruy-castro"
name: "Ruy Castro"
slug: "ruy-castro"
description: "Ruy Castro is a Brazilian author and journalist. In 1996 he was a co-winner of the Prêmio Jabuti. He is known for his writings concerning Bossa nova and for his biographies, profiling figures such as Garrincha, Nelson Rodrigues and Carmen Miranda."
tagline: "Brazilian author and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ruy_castro2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1948-02-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.247304
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1462778/"
    handle:    "nm1462778"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ruy_Castro"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "روي كاسترو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%89_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "روى كاسترو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruy_Castro"
    title: "Ruy Castro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruy_Castro"
    title: "Ruy Castro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruy_Castro"
    title: "Ruy Castro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruy_Castro"
    title: "Ruy Castro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruy_Castro"
    title: "Ruy Castro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruy_Castro"
    title: "Ruy Castro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruy_Castro"
    title: "Ruy Castro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q455120"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1314983"
    title: "Ruy Castro"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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