# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/danie-g-krige
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:51:53.362Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/danie-g-krige"
name: "Danie G. Krige"
slug: "danie-g-krige"
description: "Danie Gerhardus Krige GCOB was a South African statistician and mining engineer who pioneered the field of geostatistics and was professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Republic of South Africa. The technique of kriging is named after him. Krige's empirical work to evaluate mineral resources was formalised in the 1960s by French engineer Georges Matheron."
tagline: "1919-2013 South African mining engineer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1919-08-26"
deathDate: "2013-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.9
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.34269333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dani%C3%ABl_Krige"
    title: "Daniël Krige"
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    title: "دانی جی کریج"
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    title: "Danie G. Krige"
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    title: "Danie G. Krige"
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    title: "Danie G. Krige"
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    title: "Danie G. Krige"
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    title: "Danie G. Krige"
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    title: "Danie Krige"
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    title: "Danie G. Krige"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump