# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wasim-barelvi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:38:11.953Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wasim-barelvi"
name: "Wasim Barelvi"
slug: "wasim-barelvi"
description: "Zahid Hussain, better known by the pen name Wasim Barelvi, is an Indian Urdu-language poet. He was born in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. His ghazals, many sung by Jagjit Singh, are very popular. He has been awarded with the \"Firaq Gorakhpuri International Award\", the Kalidas gold medal ; the Begum Akhtar Kala Dharmi award; and the Naseem-e-Urdu award. \nBarelvi is Vice-Chairman of the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL)."
tagline: "Urdu poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prof._Wasim_Barelvi_(1).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-02-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.243848
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ਵਸੀਮ ਬਰੇਲਵੀ"
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    title: "وسیم بریلوی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "வாசிம் பரேல்வி"
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    title: "وسیم بریلوی"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump