# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-wakefield
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:27:26.150Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-wakefield"
name: "Andrew Wakefield"
slug: "andrew-wakefield"
description: "Andrew Jeremy Wakefield is an English fraudster, anti-vaccine activist, and former senior surgeon. He was struck off the medical register for \"serious professional misconduct\" due to his involvement in the fraudulent 1998 Lancet MMR autism study that falsely claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism."
tagline: "British former doctor"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1956-09-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 176
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump