# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aqqaluk-lynge
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:43:14.897Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aqqaluk-lynge"
name: "Aqqaluk Lynge"
slug: "aqqaluk-lynge"
description: "Aqqaluk Lynge was the president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council from 1995 to 2002. He is a former member of the Inatsisartut and one of the founders of the Greenlandic political party Inuit Ataqatigiit. An indigenous Kalaaleq, in 2004 Lynge became a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which is an advisory body to the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council. He was a visiting fellow at the Dartmouth College Institute of Arctic Studies in 2008 and received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from the college in 2012. Lynge has also become known as an author of poetry and essays, published in Greenlandic, Danish, English and French."
tagline: "President of Inuit Circumpolar Council, member of UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1947-10-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.22
  momentum:             10
  historical:           5.479302666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1248633/"
    handle:    "nm1248633"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqqaluk_Lynge"
    title: "Aqqaluk Lynge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqqaluk_Lynge"
    title: "Aqqaluk Lynge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqqaluk_Lynge"
    title: "Aqqaluk Lynge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqqaluk_Lynge"
    title: "Aqqaluk Lynge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqqaluk_Lynge"
    title: "Aqqaluk Lynge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqqaluk_Lynge"
    title: "Aqqaluk Lynge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4570569"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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