# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erling-sverdrup
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:00:53.021Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erling-sverdrup"
name: "Erling Sverdrup"
slug: "erling-sverdrup"
description: "Erling Sverdrup was a Norwegian statistician and actuarial mathematician. He played an instrumental role in building up and modernising the fields of mathematical statistics and actuarial science in Norway, primarily at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oslo but also via his links to Statistics Norway."
tagline: "Norwegian statistician, actuarial mathematician"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1917-02-23"
deathDate: "1994-03-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           33.98
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.267566666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Έρλινγκ Σβέρντρουπ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Sverdrup"
    title: "Erling Sverdrup"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA_%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8"
    title: "إرلينغ سفيردروب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Sverdrup"
    title: "Erling Sverdrup"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Sverdrup"
    title: "Erling Sverdrup"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Sverdrup"
    title: "Erling Sverdrup"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11967858"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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