# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-goldfarb
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:23:20.409Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-goldfarb"
name: "Alexander Goldfarb"
slug: "alexander-goldfarb"
description: "Alexander Davidovich Goldfarb is a Russian-American microbiologist, activist, and author. He emigrated from the USSR in 1975 and studied in Israel and Germany before settling permanently in New York in 1982. Goldfarb is a naturalized American citizen. He has combined a scientific career as a microbiologist with political and public activities focused on civil liberties and human rights in Russia, in the course of which he has been associated with Andrei Sakharov, George Soros, Boris Berezovsky, and Alexander Litvinenko. He has not visited Russia since 2000."
tagline: "American microbiologist and activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexander_Goldfarb.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1947-05-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.72
  momentum:             0.3043110735418428
  historical:           6.177217333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/iz_londona"
    handle:    "iz_londona"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/goldfarbal"
    handle:    "goldfarbal"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8"
    title: "الكسندر جولدفارب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Goldfarb_(biologist)"
    title: "Alexander Goldfarb (biologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Goldfarb"
    title: "Alexander Goldfarb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Goldfarb"
    title: "Aleksandr Goldfarb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%A1%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A8_%D7%92%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%93%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%91_(%D7%91%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%92)"
    title: "אלכסנדר גולדפרב (ביולוג)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4%D1%84%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B1%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Гольдфарб, Александр Давыдович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4142761"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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