# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adam-rutherford
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:58:18.949Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adam-rutherford"
name: "Adam Rutherford"
slug: "adam-rutherford"
description: "Adam David Rutherford is an English geneticist and science communicator. He was an audio-visual content editor for the journal Nature for a decade, and is a frequent contributor to the newspaper The Guardian. He formerly hosted the BBC Radio 4 programmes Inside Science and The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry; has produced several science documentaries; and has published books related to genetics and the origin of life."
tagline: "British geneticist, author, and broadcaster"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Adam_Rutherford_at_TAM_London_2010.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Actor"
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birthDate: "1975"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "AdamRutherford"
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2472398/"
    handle:    "nm2472398"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.adamrutherford.com"
sources:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump