# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stefan-homburg
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:29:27.628Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stefan-homburg"
name: "Stefan Homburg"
slug: "stefan-homburg"
description: "Stefan Homburg is a retired German professor of economics. He was the director of the Institute of Public Finance at the University of Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany until his early retirement in 2021. Outside academia he is best known for his controversial statements regarding the COVID-19 pandemic."
tagline: "German economist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stefan_Homburg_(2021).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1961-03-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           70.02
  momentum:             17.54467858095492
  historical:           4.071949333333333
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  225
  category: 157
totalFollowers: 125000
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/SHomburg"
    handle:    "SHomburg"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3344601/"
    handle:    "nm3344601"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.stefan-homburg.de/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDG7fluFPCLOmFz_Rhc3cXw"
    handle:    "@sthomburg"
    followers: 125000
sources:
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Homburg"
    title: "Stefan Homburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Homburg"
    title: "Stefan Homburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ستيفان هومبورج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stefan_Homburg"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Discovered via Wikipedia top-views