# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/holger-crafoord
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:08:19.599Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/holger-crafoord"
name: "Holger Crafoord"
slug: "holger-crafoord"
description: "Alf Erik Holger Crafoord was a Swedish industrialist and patron. He founded Gambro, which developed and commercialised the artificial kidney. He also established the Crafoord Foundation, the proceeds of which fund the Crafoord Prize for scientific research."
tagline: "Swedish businessman (1908–1982)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Crafoord_Holger_19080725_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
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  slug: "founders"
profileType:
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  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1908-07-25"
deathDate: "1982-05-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.81746
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Holger Crafoord"
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    title: "Holger Crafoord"
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    title: "Holger Crafoord"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump