# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leif-rantala
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:10:56.648Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leif-rantala"
name: "Leif Rantala"
slug: "leif-rantala"
description: "Leif Rantala was a Finnish-Swedish linguist, and a specialist of Sami languages, cultures of history, especially of the Kola Peninsula."
tagline: "Finnish linguist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-12-26"
deathDate: "2015-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.64
  momentum:             16.91489361702128
  historical:           6.802016
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Rantala"
    title: "Leif Rantala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "ليف رانتالا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Rantala"
    title: "Leif Rantala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Rantala"
    title: "Leif Rantala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Rantala"
    title: "Leif Rantala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Rantala"
    title: "Leif Rantala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%84"
    title: "Рантала, Лейф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Rantala"
    title: "Leif Rantala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18746248"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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