# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/s-p-somtow
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:46:34.381Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/s-p-somtow"
name: "S. P. Somtow"
slug: "s-p-somtow"
description: "Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul, known professionally as S. P. Somtow, is a Thai-American author, composer, and conductor. He has written science fiction, fantasy, and horror in English under the names Somtow Sucharitkul and S. P. Somtow, and has composed and conducted extensively in Thailand, where he founded several of the country's leading classical-music institutions. He holds both Thai and American citizenship."
tagline: "Thai writer and composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/S._P._Somtow%2C_in_a_tuxedo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1952-12-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.01
  momentum:             18.24968632371393
  historical:           13.17134933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006572/"
    handle:    "nm0006572"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "إس. بي. سامتوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اس. بى. سامتوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.P._Somtow"
    title: "S.P. Somtow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._P._Somtow"
    title: "S. P. Somtow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._P._Somtow"
    title: "S. P. Somtow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._P._Somtow"
    title: "S. P. Somtow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._P._Somtow"
    title: "S. P. Somtow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._P._Somtow"
    title: "S. P. Somtow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._P._Somtow"
    title: "S. P. Somtow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BD%E3%83%A0%E3%83%88%E3%82%A6%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%88%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AB"
    title: "ソムトウ・スチャリトカル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._P._Somtow"
    title: "S. P. Somtow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1._%D0%9F._%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BC%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%83"
    title: "С. П. Сомтоу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%A1%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%96%E0%B8%B2_%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%A5"
    title: "สมเถา สุจริตกุล"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1._%D0%9F._%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BC%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2"
    title: "С. П. Сомтов"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/S._P._Somtow"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q938710"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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