# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rik-torfs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:45:27.004Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rik-torfs"
name: "Rik Torfs"
slug: "rik-torfs"
description: "Henri Maria Dymphna André Laurent \"Rik\" Torfs is a Belgian canon law scholar and media personality. He is a former Senator for the Christian Democratic and Flemish party in the Belgian Federal Parliament and a former Rector of the Catholic University of Leuven."
tagline: "Religious scholar, politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rik_Torfs05052010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1956-10-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.02
  momentum:             2.981366459627329
  historical:           5.045144000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.riktorfs.be"
sources:
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    title: "Rik Torfs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rik_Torfs"
    title: "Rik Torfs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rik_Torfs"
    title: "Rik Torfs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rik_Torfs"
    title: "Rik Torfs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rik_Torfs"
    title: "Rik Torfs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2521676"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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