# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bennet-omalu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:45:08.962Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bennet-omalu"
name: "Bennet Omalu"
slug: "bennet-omalu"
description: "Bennet Ifeakandu Omalu is a Nigerian and American physician, forensic pathologist, and neuropathologist who was the first to discover and publish findings on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players while working at the Allegheny County coroner's office in Pittsburgh. He later became the chief medical examiner for San Joaquin County, California, and is a professor at the University of California, Davis, department of medical pathology and laboratory medicine. He is currently the president and medical director of Bennet Omalu Pathology."
tagline: "Nigerian-American pathologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Omalu_Speaks_at_Wounded_Warrior_Battalion_(1)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1968"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.19
  momentum:             10
  historical:           16.23714933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  87
  category: 100
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/bennetomalu9168"
    handle:    "bennetomalu9168"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6013992/"
    handle:    "nm6013992"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.bennetomalu.com"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bennet Omalu"
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    title: "Bennet Omalu"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump