# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sharbat-gula
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:14:56.313Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sharbat-gula"
name: "Sharbat Gula"
slug: "sharbat-gula"
description: "Sharbat Gula is an Afghan woman who became internationally recognized as the subject in Afghan Girl, a 1984 portrait taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry that was later published as the cover photograph for the June 1985 issue of National Geographic. The portrait was shot at Nasir Bagh, Pakistan, while Gula was residing there as an Afghan refugee fleeing the Soviet–Afghan War. Despite the photograph's high global recognition, Gula's identity remained unknown until 2002, when her whereabouts were verified and she was photographed for the second time in her life. Having lived and raised a family in Pakistan for 35 years, Gula was arrested by Pakistani authorities in 2016 and subsequently deported to Afghanistan in 2017 on the charge of possessing forged identity documents. However, in November 2021, Gula was granted asylum in Italy, three months after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan."
tagline: "Sharbat Gula, subject of a notable photograph titled \"Afghan Girl\""
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sharbat_Gula_-_Brussels_-_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1972-03-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.729236
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1588369/"
    handle:    "nm1588369"
sources:
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    title: "Sharbat Gula"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharbat_Gula"
    title: "Sharbat Gula"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شربات جولا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Şərbət Güla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Шарбат Гула"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Шарбат Гула"
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    title: "Sharbat Gula"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Šarbat Gula"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sharbat Gula"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شربت‌گل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sharbat Gula"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharbat_Gula"
    title: "Sharbat Gula"
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    title: "שרבט גולה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Շարբաթ Գուլա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sharbat Gula"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sharbat Gula"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharbat_Gula"
    title: "Sharbat Gula"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharbat_Gula"
    title: "Sharbat Gula"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szarbat_Gula"
    title: "Szarbat Gula"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%AA_%DA%AF%D9%84"
    title: "شربت گل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%AA_%DA%AB%D9%84%D9%87"
    title: "شربت ګله"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230487"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2988225"
    title: "Sharbat Gula"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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