# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hans-rudolf-herren
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:09:25.241Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hans-rudolf-herren"
name: "Hans Rudolf Herren"
slug: "hans-rudolf-herren"
description: "Hans Rudolf Herren is a Swiss American entomologist, farmer and development specialist. He was the first Swiss to receive the 1995 World Food Prize and the 2013 Right Livelihood Award for leading a major biological pest management campaign in Africa, successfully fighting the cassava mealybug and averting a major food crisis that could have claimed an estimated 20 million lives."
tagline: "Swiss entomologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hans_Herren%2C_2009_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1947-11-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.58
  momentum:             15.68965517241379
  historical:           5.474478666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Hans Rudolf Herren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rudolf_Herren"
    title: "Hans Rudolf Herren"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rudolf_Herren"
    title: "Hans Rudolf Herren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rudolf_Herren"
    title: "Hans Rudolf Herren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rudolf_Herren"
    title: "Hans Rudolf Herren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rudolf_Herren"
    title: "Hans Rudolf Herren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1324019"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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