# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wouter-basson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:52:47.841Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wouter-basson"
name: "Wouter Basson"
slug: "wouter-basson"
description: "Wouter Basson is a South African cardiologist, drug trafficker, and former head of the country's secret chemical and biological warfare project, Project Coast, during the apartheid era. Nicknamed \"Dr Death\" by the press for his alleged actions in apartheid South Africa, Basson was acquitted in 2002 of 67 charges, after having been suspended from his military post with full pay in 1999."
tagline: "South African cardiologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
birthDate: "1950-07-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.92
  momentum:             8.006902069207273
  historical:           7.820494666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%88%D9%B9%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "ووٹر باسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouter_Basson"
    title: "Wouter Basson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouter_Basson"
    title: "Wouter Basson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouter_Basson"
    title: "Wouter Basson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouter_Basson"
    title: "Wouter Basson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onye_na-egbu_egbu"
    title: "Onye na-egbu egbu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouter_Basson"
    title: "Wouter Basson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouter_Basson"
    title: "Wouter Basson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouter_Basson"
    title: "Wouter Basson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3570071"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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