# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lee-ho-wang
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:36:43.199Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lee-ho-wang"
name: "Lee Ho-wang"
slug: "lee-ho-wang"
description: "Ho Wang Lee was a South Korean physician, epidemiologist, and virologist. He was the first person in the history of medicine to be the one chiefly responsible for all three of the following steps: discovery of a virus causing a human disease, development of a method of diagnosis for the disease, and development of a vaccine against the disease."
tagline: "South Korean virologist (1928–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%EC%9D%B4%ED%98%B8%EC%99%95_%EB%B0%95%EC%82%AC.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Korea"
  isoCode: "KR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1928-10-26"
deathDate: "2022-07-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.77
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.619512
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E9%95%90%E6%B1%AA"
    title: "李镐汪"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%BA_%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "هو وانغ لي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Ho-wang"
    title: "Lee Ho-wang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Wang_Lee"
    title: "Ho Wang Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF_%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "هو وانگ لی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E9%8E%AC%E6%B1%AA"
    title: "李鎬汪"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%ED%98%B8%EC%99%95"
    title: "이호왕"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%9B%D1%96"
    title: "Хо Ван Лі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1363894"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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