# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/touby-lyfoung
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:26:27.221Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/touby-lyfoung"
name: "Touby Lyfoung"
slug: "touby-lyfoung"
description: "Touby Lyfoung was a Hmong political and military leader. Born in 1919 in Nong Het, Laos, he became the first Hmong politician to achieve national prominence. During his long career, which began under French colonial rule and extended to the communist takeover in 1975, he supported the Royal Lao Government (RLG) and American involvement in the Secret War."
tagline: "Laotian politician (1917–1979)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tub_Npis_Lis_Foom_at_an_old_age.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1917"
deathDate: "1979"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.13
  momentum:             0.8527131782945736
  historical:           5.01512
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touby_Lyfoung"
    title: "Touby Lyfoung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touby_Lyfoung"
    title: "Touby Lyfoung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touby_Lyfoung"
    title: "Touby Lyfoung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touby_Ly_Foung"
    title: "Touby Ly Foung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%9C%E6%AF%94%C2%B7%E6%9D%8E%E5%B3%B0"
    title: "杜比·李峰"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3532786"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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