# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kevin-granata
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:35:30.853Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kevin-granata"
name: "Kevin Granata"
slug: "kevin-granata"
description: "Kevin P. Granata was an American professor in multiple departments including the Departments of Engineering, Science and Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, in Blacksburg, Virginia. Granata held an additional academic appointment as a professor in the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and was an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery."
tagline: "Professor and researcher (1961-2007)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Kevin_Granata.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1961-12-29"
deathDate: "2007-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.96
  momentum:             1.167820069204152
  historical:           6.499005333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "凯文·格兰纳达"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كيفن جراناتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "کوین قرانتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Granata"
    title: "Kevin Granata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Granata"
    title: "Kevin Granata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Granata"
    title: "Kevin Granata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Granata"
    title: "Kevin Granata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q164311"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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