# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/freek-vonk
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:24:14.557Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/freek-vonk"
name: "Freek Vonk"
slug: "freek-vonk"
description: "Freek Jacobus Vonk is a Dutch professor of biology who specializes in herpetology with a special interest in snake venom. He travels the world in search of the most spectacular and bizarre creatures. He has been bitten by a number of venomous snakes, almost lost his arm due to a Caribbean reef shark bite and has housed several parasites in his own body."
tagline: "Dutch biologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Freek_Vonk_(2016).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1983-02-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.325634666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/freekvonk/"
    handle:    "freekvonk"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3936997/"
    handle:    "nm3936997"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.freekvonk.nl/"
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freek_Vonk"
    title: "Freek Vonk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freek_Jacobus_Vonk"
    title: "Freek Jacobus Vonk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freek_Vonk"
    title: "Freek Vonk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BA%2C_%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BA"
    title: "Вонк, Фрек"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freek_J._Vonk"
    title: "Freek J. Vonk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2426522"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1419727"
    title: "Freek Vonk"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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