# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexandra-elbakyan
# Generated: 2026-09-06T20:48:18.113Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexandra-elbakyan"
name: "Alexandra Elbakyan"
slug: "alexandra-elbakyan"
description: "Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan is a Kazakhstani computer programmer, multidisciplinary academic, and the creator of the website Sci-Hub, which provides free access to research papers. Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature published before 2020, but a much lower proportion of those published since then."
tagline: "Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub"
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category:
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birthDate: "1988-11-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 59
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill