# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shiva-ayyadurai
# Generated: 2026-09-02T04:32:14.683Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shiva-ayyadurai"
name: "Shiva Ayyadurai"
slug: "shiva-ayyadurai"
description: "V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai is an American engineer, entrepreneur, and anti-vaccine activist. He has become known for promoting conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and unfounded medical claims. Ayyadurai holds four degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), including a PhD in biological engineering, and is a Fulbright grant recipient."
tagline: "Indian inventor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/V.A.Shiva.2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1963-12-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           71.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.477984
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 66
totalFollowers: 255000
platforms:
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    handle:    "va.shiva.ayyadurai"
  - platform:  "X"
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    handle:    "va_shiva"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/va_shiva/"
    handle:    "va_shiva"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9220472/"
    handle:    "nm9220472"
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    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Esh5OiaDMUt-iEHYCbQCg"
    handle:    "@drvashiva"
    followers: 255000
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    title: "ശിവ അയ്യാദുരൈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ਸ਼ਿਵਾ ਅਯਾਦੁਰਾਈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "சிவா ஐயாதுரை"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Shiva Ayyadurai"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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