# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wim-esajas
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:01:55.047Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wim-esajas"
name: "Wim Esajas"
slug: "wim-esajas"
description: "Siegfried Willem \"Wim\" Esajas was a Surinamese middle-distance runner who qualified for the athletics at the men's 800 m event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy and was supposed to be the first Surinamese Olympian. Esajas missed the event, and it was alleged that he overslept, whereas he was actually given an incorrect starting time for his event by Fred Glans, the head of Suriname's Olympic delegation."
tagline: "Surinamese athlete (1935–2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wim_Esajas_(1960).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1935-04-16"
deathDate: "2005-04-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.41
  momentum:             7.666666666666666
  historical:           5.003528
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Esajas"
    title: "Siegfried Esajas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Esajas"
    title: "Wim Esajas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Esajas"
    title: "Wim Esajas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Esajas"
    title: "Wim Esajas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Esajas"
    title: "Wim Esajas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2283325"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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