# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shaban-jafari
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:51:02.702Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shaban-jafari"
name: "Shaban Jafari"
slug: "shaban-jafari"
description: "Shaban Jafari, also known as Pahlevan Shaban Jafari(Persian: پهلوان شعبان جعفری, romanized: Pahlaven Sha'bān Jafari) by Pahlavi supporters or Shaban the Crown-Bestower or Shaban Bi-Mokh by Pahlavi opponents, was an Iranian political activist and practitioner of Pahlevani and zoorkhaneh rituals. A controversial figure in Iranian politics, he was instrumental in overthrowing Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh's government in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état."
tagline: "Iranian politician (1921-2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shaban_jafari.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1921-03-21"
deathDate: "2006-08-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.47
  momentum:             20.61444969615125
  historical:           5.633490666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaban_Jafari"
    title: "Shaban Jafari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%B9%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A"
    title: "شعبان جعفري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%B9%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C"
    title: "شعبان جعفری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaban_Jafari"
    title: "Shaban Jafari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%B9%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C"
    title: "شعبان جعفری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaban_Jafari"
    title: "Shaban Jafari"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5960120"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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