# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alois-langer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:48:16.109Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alois-langer"
name: "Alois Langer"
slug: "alois-langer"
description: "Alois A. Langer is an American biomedical engineer best known as one of the co-inventors of the Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)."
tagline: "Biomedical Engineer and one of the inventors of the ICD"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1945-02-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.59
  momentum:             0.8235294117647058
  historical:           5.469978666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Langer"
    title: "Alois Langer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%BA%D8%B1"
    title: "ألويس لانغر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B1"
    title: "الويس لانجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Langer"
    title: "Alois Langer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Langer"
    title: "Alois Langer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Langer"
    title: "Alois Langer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4734242"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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