# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/xiong-yan-q8044721
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:59:51.254Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/xiong-yan-q8044721"
name: "Xiong Yan"
slug: "xiong-yan-q8044721"
description: "Xiong Yan is a Chinese-American human rights activist, military officer, and Protestant chaplain. He was a dissident involved in 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Xiong Yan studied at Peking University Law School from 1986 to 1989. He came to the United States of America as a political refugee in 1992, and later became a chaplain in U.S. Army, serving in Iraq. Xiong Yan is the author of three books, and has earned six degrees. He ran for Congress in New York's 10th congressional district in 2022, and his campaign was reportedly attacked by agents of China's Ministry of State Security."
tagline: "Chinese dissident / US Army chaplain"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/VOA_CHINESE_XIONG_YAN_03June10_300_main.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
birthDate: "1964-09-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.68
  momentum:             6.543594306049823
  historical:           5.133884
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/YanXiongForNYC"
    handle:    "YanXiongForNYC"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/yanxiongforcongress/"
    handle:    "yanxiongforcongress"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/yanxiongforcongress2022"
    handle:    "yanxiongforcongress2022"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiong_Yan"
    title: "Xiong Yan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiong_Yan_(dissident)"
    title: "Xiong Yan (dissident)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiong_Yan_(dissident)"
    title: "Xiong Yan (dissident)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiong_Yan_(pembelot)"
    title: "Xiong Yan (pembelot)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%86%8A%E7%84%B1"
    title: "熊焱"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8044721"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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