# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-rado
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:30:27.015Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-rado"
name: "Alexander Radó"
slug: "alexander-rado"
description: "Alexander Radó was a Hungarian cartographer who later became a Soviet military intelligence-agent in World War II. Radó was born into a middle class Jewish family in Újpest. He attended school in Budapest, before being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army in 1917, where he became a radicalised communist. He was involved in communist regime in Hungary until it fell in 1919 and needed to flee to Austria. In 1921, he attended the third congress of the Communist International (\"Comintern\") in Moscow."
tagline: "Hungarian cartographer, communist activist, spy (1899-1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rado_Shandor.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1899-11-05"
deathDate: "1981-08-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.18146533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE"
    title: "Шандор Радо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88"
    title: "اليكساندر رادو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1ndor_Rad%C3%B3"
    title: "Sándor Radó"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Rad%C3%B3"
    title: "Alexander Radó"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1ndor_Rad%C3%B3"
    title: "Sándor Radó"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Rad%C3%B3"
    title: "Alexander Radó"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Rad%C3%B3"
    title: "Alexandre Radó"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A8_%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%93%D7%95_(%D7%92%D7%90%D7%95%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%A3)"
    title: "שאנדור ראדו (גאוגרף)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rad%C3%B3_S%C3%A1ndor_(geogr%C3%A1fus)"
    title: "Radó Sándor (geográfus)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1ndor_Rad%C3%B3"
    title: "Sándor Radó"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Rad%C3%B3"
    title: "Alexander Radó"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1ndor_Rad%C3%B3"
    title: "Sándor Radó"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE%2C_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80"
    title: "Радо, Шандор"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q567610"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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