# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yusuf-dadoo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:29:40.807Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yusuf-dadoo"
name: "Yusuf Dadoo"
slug: "yusuf-dadoo"
description: "Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo OMSG was a South African Communist and an anti-apartheid activist. During his life, he was chair of both the South African Indian Congress and the South African Communist Party, as well as being a major proponent of co-operation between those organisations and the African National Congress. He was a leader of the Defiance Campaign and a defendant at the Treason Trial in 1956. His last days were spent in exile in London, where he is buried at Highgate Cemetery; a few metres away from the Tomb of Karl Marx."
tagline: "South African activist (1909-1983)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Yusuf_Dadoo.jpg/330px-Yusuf_Dadoo.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1909-09-05"
deathDate: "1983-09-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.364581333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Даду, Юсуф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%81_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88"
    title: "يوسف دادو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_Dadoo"
    title: "Yusuf Dadoo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_Dadoo"
    title: "Yusuf Dadoo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_Dadoo"
    title: "Yusuf Dadoo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%81_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88"
    title: "یوسف دادو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_Dadoo"
    title: "Yusuf Dadoo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_Dadoo"
    title: "Yusuf Dadoo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%AF%E0%AB%81%E0%AA%B8%E0%AB%81%E0%AA%AB_%E0%AA%A6%E0%AA%BE%E0%AA%A6%E0%AB%82"
    title: "યુસુફ દાદૂ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_Dadoo"
    title: "Yusuf Dadoo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q444072"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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