# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/muhammad-yunus
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:48:41.224Z

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description: "He proved you could lend to the poorest without collateral and they'd pay you back — then built a bank on that premise and won a Nobel Peace Prize for it. Now, after decades as the face of microcredit, he's running Bangladesh."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Muhammad Yunus was born in Hathazari in 1940, studied economics in Dhaka and at Vanderbilt, and returned to teach at Chittagong University. After Bangladesh's 1974 famine, he began experimenting with small loans to villagers who had no access to formal credit. In 1983 he founded Grameen Bank to scale the model; it spread to about 100 countries and earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, followed by the Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal. He went on to chancellor Glasgow Caledonian University, serve on the UN Foundation board, and launch Grameen offshoots in America. Then in 2024, after the July Uprising forced out Sheikh Hasina, students demanded Yunus take charge — and he became chief adviser of the interim government, tasked with constitutional reform and elections.