# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/malik-peiris
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:10:33.076Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/malik-peiris"
name: "Malik Peiris"
slug: "malik-peiris"
description: "Joseph Sriyal Malik Peiris is a Hong Kong-based Sri Lankan virologist, most notable for being the first person to isolate the SARS virus. He is the current Tam Wah-Ching Professor in Medical Science, and Chair Professor of Virology at the Division of Public Health Laboratory Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong. He was a member of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization of the World Health Organization from 2009 to 2010."
tagline: "Sri Lankan scientist"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1949-11-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.43
  momentum:             3.80281690140845
  historical:           6.344493333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Malik_Peiris"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "مالك بيريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "مالك بيريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik_Peiris"
    title: "Malik Peiris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik_Peiris"
    title: "Malik Peiris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik_Peiris"
    title: "Malik Peiris"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A3%B4%E4%BC%9F%E5%A3%AB"
    title: "裴伟士"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6743602"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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