# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/osmo-antero-wiio
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:02:53.628Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/osmo-antero-wiio"
name: "Osmo Antero Wiio"
slug: "osmo-antero-wiio"
description: "Osmo Antero Wiio was a Finnish academic, journalist, author and member of the Finnish Parliament. He is best known for his somewhat facetious Wiio's laws around communication, succinctly summarized as \"Communication usually fails, except by accident\"."
tagline: "Finnish communications professor, journalist and Member of Parliament (1928-2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Osmo-A-Wiio-1977.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1928-02-04"
deathDate: "2013-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.3846153846153846
  historical:           6.805832
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmo_Antero_Wiio"
    title: "Osmo Antero Wiio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%88"
    title: "اوسمو انتيرو ويو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%BE_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BE"
    title: "Осмо Антеро Вио"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmo_A._Wiio"
    title: "Osmo A. Wiio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmo_Antero_Wiio"
    title: "Osmo Antero Wiio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmo_A._Wiio"
    title: "Osmo A. Wiio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmo_Antero_Wiio"
    title: "Osmo Antero Wiio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmo_A._Wiio"
    title: "Osmo A. Wiio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3896211"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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