# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ville-ranta
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:29:39.954Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ville-ranta"
name: "Ville Ranta"
slug: "ville-ranta"
description: "Ville Matias Ranta is a Finnish comic artist and cartoonist from Oulu. He received the Finnish comics society's Puupäähattu award in 2009. In his work, Ranta focus on controversial and provocative topics among other things. His comic Mohammed, Fear and Freedom of Speech led to the sacking of the editor Jussi Vilkuna. In 2017, he was made Knight of the National Order of Merit of France. He is the first Finnish comic artist to be admitted into the order."
tagline: "Finnish cartoonist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ville_Ranta.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1978-11-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.3
  momentum:             15.27272727272727
  historical:           5.470734666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/vilranta"
    handle:    "vilranta"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/vilranta/"
    handle:    "vilranta"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/vilranta"
    handle:    "vilranta"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3655427/"
    handle:    "nm3655427"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.villeranta.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_Ranta"
    title: "Ville Ranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_Ranta"
    title: "Ville Ranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_Ranta"
    title: "Ville Ranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_Ranta"
    title: "Ville Ranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_Ranta"
    title: "Ville Ranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1340428"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5731159"
    title: "Ville Ranta"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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