# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tor-n-rretranders
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:20:54.056Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tor-n-rretranders"
name: "Tor Nørretranders"
slug: "tor-n-rretranders"
description: "Tor Nørretranders is a Danish author of popular science. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. His books and lectures have primarily been focused on light popular science and its role in society, often with Nørretranders' own advice about how society should integrate new findings in popular science. He introduced the notion of exformation in his book The User Illusion."
tagline: "Danish writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Share_your_Shit_-_medium_size.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-06-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.67
  momentum:             0.75
  historical:           11.223508
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Norretranders"
    handle:    "Norretranders"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1301432/"
    handle:    "nm1301432"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.tor.dk/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "تور نوريترانديرس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_N%C3%B8rretranders"
    title: "Tor Nørretranders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_N%C3%B8rretranders"
    title: "Tor Nørretranders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_N%C3%B8rretranders"
    title: "Tor Nørretranders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_N%C3%B8rretranders"
    title: "Tor Nørretranders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_N%C3%B8rretranders"
    title: "Tor Nørretranders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_N%C3%B8rretranders"
    title: "Tor Nørretranders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_N%C3%B8rretranders"
    title: "Tor Nørretranders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_N%C3%B8rretranders"
    title: "Tor Nørretranders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_N%C3%B8rretranders"
    title: "Tor Nørretranders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_N%C3%B8rretranders"
    title: "Tor Nørretranders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_N%C3%B8rretranders"
    title: "Tor Nørretranders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q610689"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4793747"
    title: "Tor Nørretranders"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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