# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruja-ignatova
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:57:13.187Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruja-ignatova"
name: "Ruja Ignatova"
slug: "ruja-ignatova"
description: "Ruja Plamenova Ignatova, also known by the nickname \"Cryptoqueen\", is a Bulgarian-German entrepreneur and con artist. She is one of the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, and is best known as the founder of the fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme OneCoin, which The Times described as \"one of the biggest scams in history.\" She was the subject of the 2019 BBC podcast series The Missing Cryptoqueen and the 2022 book of the same name. Ignatova boarded a Ryanair flight from Sofia to Athens on October 25, 2017, and has not been seen since."
tagline: "Bulgarian businesswoman, prosecuted for cryptocurrency fraud"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ruja_Ignatova_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1980-05-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.31
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.47213733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 86
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    title: "Ruja Ignatova"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ռուժա Իգնատովա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ruja Ignatova"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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