# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shane-legg
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:20:41.144Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shane-legg"
name: "Shane Legg"
slug: "shane-legg"
description: "Shane Legg is a machine learning researcher and entrepreneur. With Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, he cofounded DeepMind Technologies, and works there as the chief AGI scientist. He is also known for his academic work on artificial general intelligence, including his thesis supervised by Marcus Hutter."
tagline: "Machine learning researcher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shane_Legg.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1973"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.764489333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ShaneLegg"
    handle:    "ShaneLegg"
sources:
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%9C%D7%92"
    title: "שיין לג"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Legg"
    title: "Shane Legg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%BA"
    title: "شاين ليغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Legg"
    title: "Shane Legg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Legg"
    title: "Shane Legg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%84%DA%AF"
    title: "شین لگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Legg"
    title: "Shane Legg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22278829"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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