# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yossi-ghinsberg
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:12:44.829Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yossi-ghinsberg"
name: "Yossi Ghinsberg"
slug: "yossi-ghinsberg"
description: "Yosseph \"Yossi\" Ghinsberg is an Israeli adventurer, author, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and motivational speaker, now based in Byron Bay, Australia. Ghinsberg is most known for his survival story in an uncharted part of the Bolivian Amazon jungle for three weeks in 1981. Ghinsberg's survival story was enacted in the 2017 psychological thriller Jungle, starring Daniel Radcliffe as Yossi Ghinsberg where he was separated from his mochileros friends. Ghinsberg's story was also featured in the documentary series I Shouldn't Be Alive on Discovery Channel."
tagline: "Adventurer, author and speaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yossi_Ghinsberg.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959-04-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.48244666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2991093/"
    handle:    "nm2991093"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ghinsberg.com/"
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    title: "Yossi Ghinsberg"
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    title: "Yossi Ghinsberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yossi Ghinsberg"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yossi Ghinsberg"
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    title: "იოსი გინსბერგი"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Yossi Ghinsberg"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump