# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sheikh-omar-faye
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:26:11.006Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sheikh-omar-faye"
name: "Sheikh Omar Faye"
slug: "sheikh-omar-faye"
description: "Sheikh Omar Faye is the Gambian ambassador to Mauritania. Prior to this position, he was Gambian Minister of Defence, as well as a former diplomat who served as the Gambian Ambassador to the United States from 2015 to 2016, and an athlete who represented the Gambia in the 1984 Olympic games."
tagline: "Gambian politician and athletics competitor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WIPO_Director_General_Meets_Republic_of_The_Gambia's_Minister_of_Defense_(51418195609)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1960-01-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.75
  momentum:             1.354166666666667
  historical:           6.137257333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%AE_%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%B1_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C"
    title: "شیخ عمر فائی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AE_%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%B1_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "شيخ عمر فاي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AE_%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%B1_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "شيخ عمر فاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Omar_Fye_(Politiker%2C_1960)"
    title: "Sheikh Omar Fye (Politiker, 1960)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Omar_Faye"
    title: "Sheikh Omar Faye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Faye"
    title: "Omar Faye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oumar_Fye"
    title: "Oumar Fye"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2277755"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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