# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sayed-bozorg-mahmoody
# Generated: 2026-09-01T18:49:47.874Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sayed-bozorg-mahmoody"
name: "Sayed Bozorg Mahmoody"
slug: "sayed-bozorg-mahmoody"
description: "Sayyed Bozorg \"Moody\" Mahmoody was an Iranian professor, engineer, and anesthesiologist, best-known for taking his American then-wife Betty and their daughter Mahtob to his native country Iran and keeping them hostage there for a period of eighteen months during the mid-1980s."
tagline: "Iranian anesthesiologist and hostage-taker"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939"
deathDate: "2009-08-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.53
  momentum:             25
  historical:           4.87194
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  41
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 188
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21095619"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyed_Bozorg_Mahmoody"
    title: "Sayed Bozorg Mahmoody"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%B2%D8%B1%DA%AF_%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AF%DB%8C"
    title: "سید بزرگ محمودی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Discovered via Wikipedia top-views