# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sheik-umar-khan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:37:39.484Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sheik-umar-khan"
name: "Sheik Umar Khan"
slug: "sheik-umar-khan"
description: "Sheik Umar Khan was the chief Sierra Leonean doctor attempting to curb the country's Ebola outbreak in 2014."
tagline: "Sierra Leonean virologist (1975-2014)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1975-03-06"
deathDate: "2014-07-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.72
  momentum:             0.6165004533091569
  historical:           9.908822666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 243
sources:
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shayx_Umar_Xon"
    title: "Shayx Umar Xon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AE_%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%B1_%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "الشيخ عمر خان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheik_Umar_Khan"
    title: "Sheik Umar Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheik_Umar_Khan"
    title: "Sheik Umar Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%B1%CE%90%CE%BA_%CE%9F%CF%85%CE%BC%CE%AC%CF%81_%CE%9A%CE%B1%CE%BD"
    title: "Σαΐκ Ουμάρ Καν"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheik_Umar_Khan"
    title: "Sheik Umar Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheik_Humarr_Khan"
    title: "Sheik Humarr Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheik_Umar_Khan"
    title: "Sheik Umar Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheik_Umar_Khan"
    title: "Sheik Umar Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheik_Umar_Khan"
    title: "Sheik Umar Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheik_Humarr_Khan"
    title: "Sheik Humarr Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheik_Umar_Khan"
    title: "Sheik Umar Khan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17444103"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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