# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-saul-wurman
# Generated: 2026-09-04T12:54:38.909Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-saul-wurman"
name: "Richard Saul Wurman"
slug: "richard-saul-wurman"
description: "Richard Saul Wurman is an American architect, author, information and graphic designer. Wurman has written, designed, and published over 90 books and created the TED conferences and TEDMED, conferences on health and medicine. Wurman received the Lifetime Achievement award from Cooper Hewitt and the AIGA Gold Medal for his work in information design."
tagline: "American architect and graphic designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Saul_Wurman_by_Melissa_Mahoney_(cropped).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Architects"
  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1935-03-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.02
  momentum:             2.314540059347181
  historical:           11.852668
  currentAttention:     12.85855588526212
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.wurman.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump