# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-childers
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:16:32.459Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-childers"
name: "Sam Childers"
slug: "sam-childers"
description: "Sam Childers, also known as the Machine Gun Preacher, is an American motorcyclist, author, and Christian. A member of the Highwaymen Motorcycle Club, Childers became well known after Dateline NBC broadcast a profile of him by Keith Morrison and Tim Sandler that documented his interactions with Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army in 2005. Childers subsequently dedicated his life and resources to rescuing children in the war zone of South Sudan. Childers and his wife Lynn founded and operate Angels of East Africa, the Children's Village Orphanage in Nimule, South Sudan, where they currently have around 185 children in their care. Childers also has orphanages and homes in Uganda and Ethiopia with another 160 children in his organisation's care."
tagline: "American activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sam_Childers_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1963"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.37
  momentum:             10
  historical:           15.11496
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Sam Childers"
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    title: "Sam Childers"
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    title: "Sam Childers"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sam Childers"
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    title: "Sam Childers"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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