# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-odaka
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:46:49.258Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-odaka"
name: "Sam Odaka"
slug: "sam-odaka"
description: "Samuel Ngude Odaka was a Ugandan diplomat, politician and member of the Uganda People's Congress political party. He served as the Foreign Minister of Uganda from 1964 to 1971 during the first tenure of President Milton Obote. He later became the Minister of Planning and Economic Development during the second Obote administration (1980–1985)."
tagline: "Ugandan politician and diplomat (1929–2015)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Miriam_Eshkol_dancing_with_Idi_Amin_1966-06-13.jpg/330px-Miriam_Eshkol_dancing_with_Idi_Amin_1966-06-13.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1929"
deathDate: "2015-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.8
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.468646666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%90%D7%9D_%D7%90%D7%95%D7%93%D7%A7%D7%94"
    title: "סאם אודקה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Odaka"
    title: "Sam Odaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Odaka"
    title: "Sam Odaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BC"
    title: "Одака, Сэм"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Odaka"
    title: "Samuel Odaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Odaka"
    title: "Sam Odaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20898439"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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