# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/felix-unger
# Generated: 2026-09-01T20:16:56.626Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/felix-unger"
name: "Felix Unger"
slug: "felix-unger"
description: "Felix Unger is a heart specialist who served as the president of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts for three decades. He is the president of Alma Mater Europaea. In 1986, he performed Europe's first staged artificial heart transplantation - a temporary solution used until a natural donor heart becomes available. Europe's first total artificial heart transplant was led by Bjarne Semb in 1985."
tagline: "Austrian cardiac surgeon (born 1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Preisverleihung_der_Toleranzringe_der_Europ%C3%A4ischen_Akademie_der_Wissenschaften_und_K%C3%BCnste_im_Rathaus_K%C3%B6ln-9959.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1946-03-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.66
  momentum:             21.23644926248445
  historical:           5.681282666666667
  currentAttention:     14.61274509803922
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Unger"
    title: "Felix Unger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3_%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%86%D8%BA%D8%B1"
    title: "فيليكس أونغر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Unger"
    title: "Felix Unger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%81_%D0%A3%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Феликс Унгер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Unger"
    title: "Felix Unger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Unger"
    title: "Felix Unger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1403867"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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