# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/beat-richner
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:17:18.188Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/beat-richner"
name: "Beat Richner"
slug: "beat-richner"
description: "Beat Richner was a Swiss pediatrician, cellist and founder of children's hospitals in Cambodia. He created the Kantha Bopha Foundation in Zürich in 1992 and became its head. Along with another expatriate, he oversaw and ran the predominantly Cambodian-staffed hospitals. As both a cellist and a medical doctor, Richner was known by patients, audiences, and donors as \"Beatocello\"."
tagline: "Swiss pediatrician, cellist, and founder of children's hospitals in Cambodia (1947-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr_Beat_Richner_(2268618152).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1947-03-13"
deathDate: "2018-09-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.07
  momentum:             10.60919484702094
  historical:           8.356805333333334
  currentAttention:     4.25
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0725178/"
    handle:    "nm0725178"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/fa6f18c4-4994-4b0e-8abf-1363e5c274bb"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "بيت ريشنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "بيت ريشنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Richner"
    title: "Beat Richner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Richner"
    title: "Beat Richner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Richner"
    title: "Beat Richner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Richner"
    title: "Beat Richner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%94%E1%9F%81%E1%9E%A2%E1%9E%B6%E1%9E%8F%E2%80%8B_%E1%9E%9A%E1%9E%B7%E1%9E%85%E1%9E%93%E1%9F%90%E1%9E%9A"
    title: "បេអាត​ រិចន័រ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Richner"
    title: "Beat Richner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Richner"
    title: "Beat Richner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q326456"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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