# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shimon-dzigan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:10:34.134Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shimon-dzigan"
name: "Shimon Dzigan"
slug: "shimon-dzigan"
description: "Dzigan and Schumacher were a Polish Jewish comedy duo who worked primarily in Yiddish. Dzigan and Schumacher performed on stage for thirty years, countless times in Poland, later Israel, and across the globe, in many films and stage shows."
tagline: "Polish Israeli Jewish comedian, actor and satirist (1905–1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shimon_Dzigan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1905"
deathDate: "1980-04-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.53
  momentum:             2.419354838709677
  historical:           9.008964
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0246208/"
    handle:    "nm0246208"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shimen Dzigan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Dzigan"
    title: "Shimon Dzigan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%93%D7%96'%D7%99%D7%92%D7%90%D7%9F"
    title: "שמעון דז'יגאן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szymon_D%C5%BCigan"
    title: "Szymon Dżigan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A8%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Джиган, Шимен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Dzigan"
    title: "Shimon Dzigan"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Shimon Dzigan"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump