# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-george
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:15:41.481Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-george"
name: "Sam George"
slug: "sam-george"
description: "Sam George is an American professional surfer, writer, director and screenwriter. A former competitive surfer, in 1983 George became a contributing editor at Surfing magazine in San Clemente, California, later becoming the magazine's senior editor. His monthly column \"Caught Inside\" ran until 1990, when he left Surfing and began work at Surfer magazine. George worked at Surfer from 1990 to 1998, when he left the magazine to work on a book project and to help start and edit a free tabloid called SurfNews. He returned to Surfer as executive editor in 2000, a position he held until 2005, when he left the magazine to concentrate on documentary film projects."
tagline: "American surfer, writer and director"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           46.23
  momentum:             14.27480916030535
  historical:           2.911702666666667
  currentAttention:     23.74893977947413
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  58
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0313605/"
    handle:    "nm0313605"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_George_(surfer)"
    title: "Sam George (surfer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%85_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC_(%D8%B3%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%B1)"
    title: "سیم جارج (سرفر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7407506"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4320"
    title: "Sam George"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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