# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-zangiev
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:32:08.289Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/victor-zangiev"
name: "Victor Zangiev"
slug: "victor-zangiev"
description: "Victor Dzantemirovich Zangiev is a retired Soviet and Russian freestyle wrestler of Ossetian origin, who wrestled professionally in Japan, where he became the cultural inspiration for the Zangief character of the Street Fighter series."
tagline: "Soviet and Russian amateur wrestler and professional wrestler"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zangiev_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1962-05-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.750978666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1340295/"
    handle:    "nm1340295"
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%81"
    title: "ویکتور زانگیف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Zangiev"
    title: "Victor Zangiev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADctor_Zangiev"
    title: "Víctor Zangiev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%B2%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%94%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Зангиев, Виктор Дзантемирович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Zangiyev"
    title: "Viktor Zangiyev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4186169"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2911246"
    title: "Victor Zangiev"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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