# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephane-hessel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:55:23.690Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephane-hessel"
name: "Stéphane Hessel"
slug: "stephane-hessel"
description: "Stéphane Frédéric Hessel was a French diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor, Resistance member and BCRA agent. Born German, he became a naturalised French citizen in 1939. He became an observer of the editing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. In 2011 he was named by Foreign Policy magazine in its list of top global thinkers. In later years his activism focused on economic inequalities, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and protection for the post–World War II social vision. His short book Time for Outrage! sold 4.5 million copies worldwide. Hessel and his book were linked and cited as an inspiration for the Spanish Indignados, the Arab Spring, the American Occupy Wall Street movement and other political movements."
tagline: "French diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor (1917–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/St%C3%A9phane_Hessel%2C_2012_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1917-10-20"
deathDate: "2013-02-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             5.382560514025934
  historical:           23.820264
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump