# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kanagaratnam-shanmugaratnam
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:51:26.858Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kanagaratnam-shanmugaratnam"
name: "Kanagaratnam Shanmugaratnam"
slug: "kanagaratnam-shanmugaratnam"
description: "Kanagaratnam Shanmugaratnam, better known as K. Shanmugaratnam, was a Singaporean histopathologist considered Singapore's \"father of pathology\". He was known for his research on nasopharyngeal carcinoma and founded the Singapore Cancer Registry."
tagline: "Singaporean pathologist (1921-2018)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/48/K._Shanmugaratnam.png"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1921-04-02"
deathDate: "2018-07-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.41
  momentum:             1.118090452261307
  historical:           2.26372
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  56
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Shanmugaratnam"
    title: "K. Shanmugaratnam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%95._%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%A3%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "க. சண்முகரத்தினம்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55864355"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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