# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kiara-nirghin
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:23:21.861Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kiara-nirghin"
name: "Kiara Nirghin"
slug: "kiara-nirghin"
description: "Kiara Nirghin is an tech entrepreneur and award-winning AI technologist originally from South Africa. She gained recognition at a young age when she won the Google Grand Prize for seminal research in AI algorithms and predictive modeling for real-world applications. Nirghin has been featured by TIME Magazine and The Guardian on their Most Influential lists and named one of Glamour Magazine’s Women of the Year. She has also been on Forbes 30 Under 30. She is recognized as a United Nations' Young Champions of the Earth and is a Global Ambassador for Room To Read."
tagline: "South African inventor, scientist and speaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kiara_Nirghin_Image.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "2000-02-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.52
  momentum:             1.126943005181347
  historical:           6.830924
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Kiara Nirghin"
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    title: "Kiara Nirghin"
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    title: "Kiara Nirghin"
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    title: "Kiara Nirghin"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiara_Nirghin"
    title: "Kiara Nirghin"
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  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%98%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "కియారా నిర్ఘిన్"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump