# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roberto-canessa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:46:58.668Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roberto-canessa"
name: "Roberto Canessa"
slug: "roberto-canessa"
description: "Roberto Jorge Canessa Urta is a Uruguayan paediatric cardiologist, motivational speaker, and former rugby player. He is one of the sixteen survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash in the Andes mountains on 13 October 1972. He was portrayed by Josh Hamilton in the 1993 feature film Alive and by Argentine actor Matías Recalt in the 2023 Spanish feature film Society of the Snow."
tagline: "Uruguayan cardiologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roberto_Canessa_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1953-01-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.34
  momentum:             2.752707581227436
  historical:           14.35944
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/rjcanessa"
    handle:    "rjcanessa"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/robertojcanessa/"
    handle:    "robertojcanessa"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/drcanessa"
    handle:    "drcanessa"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
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    handle:    "roberto-canessa-221208111"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2215055/"
    handle:    "nm2215055"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://robertocanessa.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Роберто Канесса"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "روبرتو كانيسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Роберто Канеса"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Roberto Canessa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Canessa"
    title: "Roberto Canessa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Canessa"
    title: "Roberto Canessa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Canessa"
    title: "Roberto Canessa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Canessa"
    title: "Roberto Canessa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Canessa"
    title: "Roberto Canessa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8C%D5%B8%D5%A2%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%BF%D5%B8_%D4%BF%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A5%D5%BD%D5%A1"
    title: "Ռոբերտո Կանեսա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Canessa"
    title: "Roberto Canessa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Canessa"
    title: "Roberto Canessa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%8D%E3%83%83%E3%82%B5"
    title: "ロベルト・カネッサ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Canessa"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Канесса, Роберто"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Roberto Canessa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q614602"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4059013"
    title: "Roberto Canessa"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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