# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erik-hesselberg
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:45:46.266Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erik-hesselberg"
name: "Erik Hesselberg"
slug: "erik-hesselberg"
description: "Erik Bryn Hesselberg was a Norwegian sailor, author, photographer, painter and sculptor. He is most known as a crewmember of the Kon-Tiki raft expedition from South America to French Polynesia in 1947."
tagline: "Norwegian sailor, author, photographer, and artist (1914–1972)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Hesselbergf_1229427a.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1914-06-04"
deathDate: "1972-09-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.17
  momentum:             1.399594320486815
  historical:           8.353565333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1310185/"
    handle:    "nm1310185"
sources:
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    title: "Erik Hesselberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Эрык Хесельберг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Hesselberg"
    title: "Erik Hesselberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Hesselberg"
    title: "Erik Hesselberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اریک هسلبرگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Էրիկ Հեսելբերգ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Hesselberg"
    title: "Erik Hesselberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Hesselberg"
    title: "Erik Hesselberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%2C_%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Хессельберг, Эрик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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