# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marius-barnard
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:45:48.398Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marius-barnard"
name: "Marius Barnard"
slug: "marius-barnard"
description: "Marius Stephanus Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon and inventor of critical illness insurance."
tagline: "South African politician (1927-2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marius_Barnard_(1968).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1927-11-03"
deathDate: "2014-11-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.31
  momentum:             8.092105263157894
  historical:           4.428008
  currentAttention:     44.9561403508772
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_Barnard"
    title: "Marius Barnard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_Barnard_(surgeon)"
    title: "Marius Barnard (surgeon)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_Barnard"
    title: "Marius Barnard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_Barnard_(surgeon)"
    title: "Marius Barnard (surgeon)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A9%AC%E9%87%8C%E4%B9%8C%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E5%B7%B4%E7%BA%B3%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "马里乌斯·巴纳德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6765941"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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