# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nik-gugger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:30:12.401Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nik-gugger"
name: "Nik Gugger"
slug: "nik-gugger"
description: "Niklaus-Samuel Gugger best known as Nik Gugger is a Swiss politician. He currently serves as a member of the National Council (Switzerland) for the Evangelical People's Party since 2017. He previously served as a member of the Cantonal Council of Zürich from 2014 to 2017. From 2002 to 2014, Gugger was a member of the City Council of Winterthur. Since 2019 he holds an honorary doctorate from Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology in Odisha, India. He is the first member of parliament of Indian descent to serve in the Swiss Parliament."
tagline: "Swiss politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nik_Gugger_(2021).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1970-05-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.53
  momentum:             0.6932773109243698
  historical:           4.818324
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://nikgugger.ch/home"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "نيك جوجير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nik_Gugger"
    title: "Nik Gugger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nik_Gugger"
    title: "Nik Gugger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nik_Gugger"
    title: "Nik Gugger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nik_Gugger"
    title: "Nik Gugger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18132152"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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