# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michel-deza
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:07:03.614Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michel-deza"
name: "Michel Deza"
slug: "michel-deza"
description: "Michel Marie Deza was a Soviet and French mathematician, specializing in combinatorics, discrete geometry and graph theory. He was the retired director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the vice president of the European Academy of Sciences, a research professor at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and one of the three founding editors-in-chief of the European Journal of Combinatorics."
tagline: "Russian mathematician (1939-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michel_Deza.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939-04-27"
deathDate: "2016-11-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.89
  momentum:             8.8375
  historical:           5.473218666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Deza"
    title: "Michel Deza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B2%D8%A7"
    title: "ميشيل ديزا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Deza"
    title: "Michel Deza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishel_Mari_Deza"
    title: "Mishel Mari Deza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Деза, Мишель Мари"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%96%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%96_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B0"
    title: "Мішель Марі Деза"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4156812"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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