# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tim-jenkin
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:11:38.842Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tim-jenkin"
name: "Tim Jenkin"
slug: "tim-jenkin"
description: "Timothy Peter Jenkin is a South African writer, anti-apartheid activist and former political prisoner. He is best known for his 1979 escape from Pretoria Local Prison, along with Stephen Lee and Alex Moumbaris."
tagline: "South African prison escapee and author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tim_Jenkin_(2017).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.47
  momentum:             20.47722342733189
  historical:           9.597044
  currentAttention:     58.20679681851051
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  249
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9015500/"
    handle:    "nm9015500"
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Jenkin"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Jenkin"
    title: "Tim Jenkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%85_%D8%AC%D9%86%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "تیم جنکین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Jenkin"
    title: "Tim Jenkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Jenkin"
    title: "Tim Jenkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%98%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%92'%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%9F"
    title: "טים ג'נקין"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Jenkin"
    title: "Tim Jenkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A2%D0%B8%D0%BC"
    title: "Дженкин, Тим"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ss.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Jenkin"
    title: "Tim Jenkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Jenkin"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7803719"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1971167"
    title: "Tim Jenkin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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