# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-mann
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:31:54.242Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-mann"
name: "Simon Mann"
slug: "simon-mann"
description: "Simon Francis Mann was a British officer in the Special Air Service (SAS), and later a mercenary. He trained to be an officer at Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Scots Guards. He later became a member of the SAS, and on leaving the military, he co-founded Sandline International with fellow ex-Scots Guards colonel Tim Spicer in 1996. Sandline operated mostly in Angola and Sierra Leone, but public protests against a contract with the government of Papua New Guinea led to the resignation of the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, in what became known as the Sandline affair."
tagline: "British military officer; Equatoguinean detainee"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Simon_Mann_(6357724617).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1952-06-26"
deathDate: "2025-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.69
  momentum:             15
  historical:           14.014164
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/simon.mann.777"
    handle:    "simon.mann.777"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1115931/"
    handle:    "nm1115931"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Mann"
    title: "Simon Mann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Mann"
    title: "Simon Mann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Mann"
    title: "Simon Mann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Mann"
    title: "Simon Mann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Mann"
    title: "Simon Mann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Mann"
    title: "Simon Mann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Simon Mann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Манн, Саймон"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1612705"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump