# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-berns
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:11:51.135Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-berns"
name: "Sam Berns"
slug: "sam-berns"
description: "Sampson Gordon Berns was an American activist with progeria, an extremely rare and fatal disease that causes the body to age rapidly. Berns helped raise awareness about the disease, and he was the subject of the HBO documentary Life According to Sam, which was first screened in January 2013."
tagline: "American activist (1996–2014)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d4/Sam_Berns_at_TEDx_Talks_2013.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Designers"
  slug: "designers"
profileType:
  name: "Designer"
  slug: "designer"
birthDate: "1996-10-23"
deathDate: "2014-01-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.804012
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 123
platforms:
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    url:       "https://progeriaresearch.org"
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    title: "Sam Berns"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump