# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kari-stefansson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:20:15.177Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kari-stefansson"
name: "Kári Stefánsson"
slug: "kari-stefansson"
description: "Kári Stefánsson is an Icelandic neurologist and founder and CEO of Reykjavík-based biopharmaceutical company deCODE genetics. In Iceland he has pioneered the use of population-scale genetics to understand variation in the sequence of the human genome. His work has focused on how genomic diversity is generated and on the discovery of sequence variants impacting susceptibility to common diseases. This population approach has served as a model for national genome projects around the world and contributed to the realization of several aspects of precision medicine."
tagline: "Icelandic neurologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/K%C3%A1ri_Stef%C3%A1nsson_-_PopTech_2012_-_Reykjavik_Iceland_(7473568524)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1949-04-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.25
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.290894666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/karistefansson66"
    handle:    "karistefansson66"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/k%C3%A1ri-stef%C3%A1nsson-50521940/"
    handle:    "kári-stefánsson-50521940"
sources:
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    title: "Kári Stefánsson"
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    title: "كاري ستيفانسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارى ستيفانسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1ri_Stef%C3%A1nsson"
    title: "Kári Stefánsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1ri_Stef%C3%A1nsson"
    title: "Kári Stefánsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1ri_Stef%C3%A1nsson"
    title: "Kári Stefánsson"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump