# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/craig-venter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:02:51.310Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/craig-venter"
name: "Craig Venter"
slug: "craig-venter"
description: "John Craig Venter was an American scientist, businessman, and genomics researcher. He is known for having led one of the first draft sequences of the human genome and led the first team to transfect a cell with a synthetic chromosome. Venter founded Celera Genomics, the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). He was the co-founder of Human Longevity Inc., and Synthetic Genomics."
tagline: "American biotechnologist and businessman (1946–2026)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Craigventer2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1946-10-14"
deathDate: "2026-04-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump