# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-prior
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:28:10.193Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-prior"
name: "Ian Prior"
slug: "ian-prior"
description: "Ian Ambury Miller Prior was a New Zealand doctor, epidemiologist, environmental campaigner and arts patron. He is acknowledged as the founder of epidemiology in New Zealand. He conducted pioneering epidemiological studies of Māori, Cook Islanders and Tokelau Islanders in the 1960s. He was active in a number of environmental campaigns including the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and was well known for his support of the arts, in particular the Wellington Sculpture Trust."
tagline: "New Zealand epidemiologist (1923-2009)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1923-10-16"
deathDate: "2009-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.32
  momentum:             19.05405405405406
  historical:           1.535205333333334
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  49
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Prior_(doctor)"
    title: "Ian Prior (doctor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105155091"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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