# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gunnar-kaasen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:49:26.558Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gunnar-kaasen"
name: "Gunnar Kaasen"
slug: "gunnar-kaasen"
description: "Gunnar Kaasen was a Norwegian-born musher who delivered a cylinder containing 300,000 units of diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925, as the last leg of a dog sled relay that saved the U.S. city from an epidemic."
tagline: "Norwegian-American musher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gunnar_Kaasen_with_Balto.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
birthDate: "1882-03-11"
deathDate: "1960-11-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.28
  momentum:             0.6459330143540669
  historical:           7.936182666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar_Kaasen"
    title: "Gunnar Kaasen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar_Kaasen"
    title: "Gunnar Kaasen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar_Kaasen"
    title: "Gunnar Kaasen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar_Kaasen"
    title: "Gunnar Kaasen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar_Kaasen"
    title: "Gunnar Kaasen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar_Kaasen"
    title: "Gunnar Kaasen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar_Kaasen"
    title: "Gunnar Kaasen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%93%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Каасен, Гуннар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar_Kaasen"
    title: "Gunnar Kaasen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5619057"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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