# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-karlsson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:48:50.349Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-karlsson"
name: "Fred Karlsson"
slug: "fred-karlsson"
description: "Fred Göran Karlsson is a professor emeritus of general linguistics at the University of Helsinki."
tagline: "Finnish linguist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fred_Karlsson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-02-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.29
  momentum:             5.303030303030304
  historical:           6.803636
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/46538b89-d446-4bd7-9512-f1ab7154cdfa"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Karlsson"
    title: "Fred Karlsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "فرد كارلسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "فرد كارلسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Karlsson"
    title: "Fred Karlsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Karlsson"
    title: "Fred Karlsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Karlsson"
    title: "Fred Karlsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Karlsson"
    title: "Fred Karlsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Karlsson"
    title: "Fred Karlsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q437719"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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