# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hu-dunfu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:35:41.259Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hu-dunfu"
name: "Hu Dunfu"
slug: "hu-dunfu"
description: "Hu Dunfu was a Chinese mathematician and pioneer in higher education. He won a Qing government scholarship to study at Cornell University, and became the first dean of Tsinghua University at the age of 25. He was then briefly dean of Fudan University, before establishing Utopia University in 1912 and developing it into one of China's best private universities. He also served as head of the mathematics department of National Chiao Tung University and the first president of the Chinese Mathematical Society, which he co-founded in 1935."
tagline: "Chinese mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hu_Dunfu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1886"
deathDate: "1978-12-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.13
  momentum:             1.60337552742616
  historical:           4.8099
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Hu Dunfu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Dunfu"
    title: "Hu Dunfu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Dunfu"
    title: "Hu Dunfu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%83%A1%E6%95%A6%E5%A4%8D"
    title: "胡敦复"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%83%A1%E6%95%A6%E5%A4%8D"
    title: "胡敦复"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15905376"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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