# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samir-khan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:20:53.546Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samir-khan"
name: "Samir Khan"
slug: "samir-khan"
description: "Samir ibn Zafar Khan was a Saudi Arabian naturalized U.S. citizen, jihadist militant, and the editor and publisher of Inspire, an English-language online magazine reported to be published by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). He was killed in a drone strike in Yemen together with Anwar al-Awlaki."
tagline: "American journalist (1985–2011)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Executives"
  slug: "executives"
profileType:
  name: "Executive"
  slug: "executive"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1985-12-25"
deathDate: "2011-09-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.23
  momentum:             10.5
  historical:           7.241400000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 100
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1_%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "سمیر خان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir_Khan"
    title: "Samir Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir_Khan"
    title: "Samir Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "سمير خان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "سمير خان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir_Khan"
    title: "Samir Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir_Khan"
    title: "Samir Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%82%AC%EB%AF%B8%EB%A5%B4_%EC%B9%B8"
    title: "사미르 칸"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3470843"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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