# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adriana-marais
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:25:52.629Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adriana-marais"
name: "Adriana Marais"
slug: "adriana-marais"
description: "Adriana Marais is a South African theoretical physicist, technologist and advocate for off-world exploration. She is a director of the Foundation for Space Development Africa, the organisation leading Africa's first mission to the Moon, the Africa2Moon Project. She is the founder of Proudly Human, an initiative of which is the Off-World Project, a series of habitation experiments in Earth's most extreme environments."
tagline: "South African physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/TEDxCapeTown_2015_-_Behind_The_Scenes_-_Adriana_Marais.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1983-08-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.676098666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.adrianamarais.org"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriana_Marais"
    title: "Adriana Marais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriana_Marais"
    title: "Adriana Marais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "آدریانا مارایس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriana_Marais"
    title: "Adriana Marais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D5%A4%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A1_%D5%84%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A5"
    title: "Ադրիանա Մարե"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriana_Marais"
    title: "Adriana Marais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriana_Marais"
    title: "Adriana Marais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump