# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yakov-smirnoff
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:17:46.468Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yakov-smirnoff"
name: "Yakov Smirnoff"
slug: "yakov-smirnoff"
description: "Yakov Naumovich Pokhis, better known as Yakov Smirnoff, is an American comedian, actor and writer. He began his career as a stand-up comedian in the Soviet Union, then immigrated to the United States in 1977 in order to pursue an American show business career, not yet knowing any English."
tagline: "USSR-born American comedian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yakof.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "comedians"
profileType:
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  slug: "comedian"
birthDate: "1951-01-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.046173308032891
  historical:           14.611372
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 227
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0807025"
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    url:       "http://www.yakov.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump