# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andreas-gruentzig
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:20:49.021Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andreas-gruentzig"
name: "Andreas Gruentzig"
slug: "andreas-gruentzig"
description: "Andreas Roland Grüntzig was a German American radiologist and cardiologist, with foundational interest, training, and research in epidemiology and angiology. He is known for being the first to develop successful balloon angioplasty for expanding lumens of narrowed arteries. He was born in Dresden."
tagline: "German surgeon (1939–1985)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939-06-25"
deathDate: "1985-10-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.63
  momentum:             5.679611650485437
  historical:           10.30140666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Андреас Гринциг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%BA%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%BA"
    title: "أندرياس غرونتزيغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اندرياس جرونتزيج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Roland_Gr%C3%BCntzig"
    title: "Andreas Roland Grüntzig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CE%BD%CF%84%CF%81%CE%AD%CE%B1%CF%82_%CE%93%CE%BA%CF%81%CF%8D%CE%BD%CF%84%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%B3%CE%BA"
    title: "Αντρέας Γκρύντσιγκ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Gruentzig"
    title: "Andreas Gruentzig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Roland_Gr%C3%BCntzig"
    title: "Andreas Roland Grüntzig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Gruentzig"
    title: "Andreas Gruentzig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Roland_Gr%C3%BCntzig"
    title: "Andreas Roland Grüntzig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B3"
    title: "Андреас Гринциг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Gr%C3%BCntzig"
    title: "Andreas Grüntzig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Gr%C3%BCntzig"
    title: "Andreas Grüntzig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77799"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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