# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/viktor-bout
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:05:25.295Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/viktor-bout"
name: "Viktor Bout"
slug: "viktor-bout"
description: "Viktor Anatolyevich Bout is a Russian arms dealer and politician. A weapons manufacturer and former Soviet military translator, he used his companies to smuggle arms from Eastern Europe to Africa and the Middle East during the 1990s and early 2000s. Bout gained the epithet the \"Merchant of Death\" after British minister Peter Hain read a report to the United Nations in 2003 on Bout's wide-reaching operations, extensive clientele, and willingness to bypass embargoes."
tagline: "Russian convicted illegal arms dealer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D0%AD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%A1%D0%BB%D1%83%D1%86%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B8_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%91%D1%83%D1%82_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1967-01-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.11772533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 247
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5085123/"
    handle:    "nm5085123"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://victorbout.ru/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump