# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arfa-karim
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:20:13.181Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arfa-karim"
name: "Arfa Karim"
slug: "arfa-karim"
description: "Arfa Abdul Karim Randhawa \n(Urdu: ارفع عبد الکریم رندھاوا‎, Punjabi: ارفع عبد الکریم رندھاوا‎; 2 February 1995 – 14 January 2012) was a Pakistani student and computer prodigy who became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in 2004. She was submitted to the Guinness Book of World Records for her achievement. Arfa kept the title until 2008 and went on to represent Pakistan on various international forums, including the TechEd Developers Conference. She received Pakistan's highest literary award, the Presidential Pride of Performance from General Pervez Musharraf in 2005. A science park in Lahore, the Arfa Software Technology Park, is named in her honour. At the age of 10, Arfa was invited by Bill Gates to visit Microsoft's headquarters in the United States. She died in 2012, aged 16, from a cardiac arrest."
tagline: "Pakistani computer scientist (1995–2012)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/dd/Arfakrim12_-_from_Commons.jpg/330px-Arfakrim12_-_from_Commons.jpg"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1995-02-02"
deathDate: "2012-01-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump