# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/drauzio-varella
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:00:44.354Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/drauzio-varella"
name: "Drauzio Varella"
slug: "drauzio-varella"
description: "Antônio Drauzio Varella is a Brazilian physician, scientist, writer, and medical science communicator. Varella has often commented publicly on issues such as prison conditions, social welfare, government, literature, medicine, and skepticism, and has frequently debunked pseudoscientific medical claims.Varella received the 2000 Prêmio Jabuti for his book Estação Carandiru."
tagline: "Brazilian doctor, educator, scientist, medical science popularizer in the press and TV, and best-selling author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Drauzio_Varella.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1943-05-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.47
  momentum:             5.109586736592686
  historical:           6.964196
  currentAttention:     25.530694205393
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/sitedrauziovarella/"
    handle:    "sitedrauziovarella"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/drauziovarella"
    handle:    "drauziovarella"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://drauziovarella.uol.com.br"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%88_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "انتونيو دراوزيو ڤاريلا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drauzio_Varella"
    title: "Drauzio Varella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drauzio_Varella"
    title: "Drauzio Varella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drauzio_Varella"
    title: "Drauzio Varella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drauzio_Varella"
    title: "Drauzio Varella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%2C_%D0%94%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%83"
    title: "Варелла, Драузиу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Drauzio_Varella"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1255930"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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