# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-vaknin
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:11:13.399Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-vaknin"
name: "Sam Vaknin"
slug: "sam-vaknin"
description: "Shmuel  \"Sam\" Vaknin is an Israeli writer. He is the author of Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited (1999), was the last editor-in-chief of the now-defunct political news website Global Politician, and runs a private website about narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). He was a financial advisor for several nation states; he has also postulated a theory on chronons and time asymmetry."
tagline: "Israeli writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sem-vaknin-naj-naj(3).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1961-04-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           72.02
  momentum:             4.352559446074459
  historical:           8.056422666666666
  currentAttention:     13.92949269131556
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  35
  category: null
totalFollowers: 443000
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/samvaknin"
    handle:    "samvaknin"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/samvaknin"
    handle:    "samvaknin"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://samvak.tripod.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLadFapyecCYAeuTqc12avA"
    handle:    "@samvaknin"
    followers: 443000
sources:
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    title: "Сем Вакнин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "سام ڤاكنين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Vaknin"
    title: "Sam Vaknin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Vaknin"
    title: "Sam Vaknin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Vaknin"
    title: "Sam Vaknin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%9D_%D7%95%D7%90%D7%A7%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%9F"
    title: "סם ואקנין"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ki.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Vaknin"
    title: "Sam Vaknin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szemu%E2%80%99el_Waknin"
    title: "Szemu’el Waknin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BC"
    title: "Вакнин, Сэм"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3470570"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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