# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-balluch
# Generated: 2026-09-01T20:17:09.321Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-balluch"
name: "Martin Balluch"
slug: "martin-balluch"
description: "Martin Balluch is an Austrian physicist, philosopher, vegan and prominent animal rights activist. He co-founded the Austrian Vegan Society in 1999, and has been president of the Austrian Association Against Animal Factories since 2002. The philosopher Peter Singer has called Balluch \"one of the foremost spokesmen in the worldwide animal rights movement for pursuing the nonviolent, democratic road to reform.\""
tagline: "Austrian philosopher and physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Martin_Balluch_-_Wien_2019.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1964-10-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm4713301"
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    title: "مارتن بالوش (فيلسوف من النمسا)"
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    title: "Martin Balluch"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Balluch"
    title: "Martin Balluch"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Balluch"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump