# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-yeadon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:15:58.865Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-yeadon"
name: "Michael Yeadon"
slug: "michael-yeadon"
description: "Michael Yeadon is a British anti-vaccine activist and retired pharmacologist who attracted media attention in 2020 and 2021 for making false or unfounded claims about the COVID-19 pandemic and the safety of COVID-19 vaccines. The Times has described him as \"a hero of Covid conspiracy theorists\" and \"a key figure in the antivax movement\".\nUntil 2011, he served as the chief scientist and vice-president of the allergy and respiratory research division of the drug company Pfizer, and is the co-founder and former CEO of the biotechnology company Ziarco."
tagline: "UK researcher (1960-)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/wtoUEl423mxMHWVfk2UygNyjLQF.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1960"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.667325333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/DrYeadon"
    handle:    "DrYeadon"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12080623/"
    handle:    "nm12080623"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BF%88%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E8%80%B6%E7%99%BB"
    title: "迈克·耶登"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Yeadon"
    title: "Michael Yeadon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Yeadon"
    title: "Michael Yeadon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%B3"
    title: "マイケル・イードン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%99%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Йидон, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Yeadon"
    title: "Michael Yeadon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106634902"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6269270"
    title: "Dr Michael Yeadon"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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