# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kai-donner
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:04:23.337Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kai-donner"
name: "Kai Donner"
slug: "kai-donner"
description: "Karl Reinhold \"Kai\" Donner was a Finland Swede linguist, ethnographer and political activist. He carried out expeditions to the Samoyedic and Ket peoples in Siberia between 1911 and 1914, and was docent of Uralic languages at the University of Helsinki from 1924. A central figure in Finland's independence movement, he was active in the Jäger movement and later became a prominent leader of the Lapua movement. He is also known for writing the first authoritative biography of Mannerheim."
tagline: "Finnish politician and linguist (1888–1935)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kai-Donner-1916.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1888-04-01"
deathDate: "1935-02-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.66
  momentum:             12.61758511758512
  historical:           11.412492
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Кай Доннер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%89_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "كاى دونر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Donner"
    title: "Kay Donner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Donner"
    title: "Kai Donner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Donner_(Sprachwissenschaftler)"
    title: "Kai Donner (Sprachwissenschaftler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Donner"
    title: "Kai Donner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Donner"
    title: "Kai Donner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "کای دونر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Donner"
    title: "Kai Donner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Donner"
    title: "Kai Donner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Donner"
    title: "Kai Donner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B9"
    title: "Доннер, Кай"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Donner"
    title: "Kai Donner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Donner"
    title: "Kai Donner"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q716614"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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