# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuen-kwok-yung
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:46:19.778Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuen-kwok-yung"
name: "Yuen Kwok-yung"
slug: "yuen-kwok-yung"
description: "Yuen Kwok-yung is a Hong Kong microbiologist, physician, and surgeon. He is a prolific researcher, with most of his nearly 800 papers related to research on novel microbes or emerging infectious diseases. He led a team identifying the SARS coronavirus that caused the SARS pandemic of 2003–04, and traced its genetic origins to wild bats. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he acted as expert adviser to the Hong Kong government."
tagline: "Hong Kong microbiologist, physician and surgeon"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yuen_Kwok-yung_2020.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1956-12-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.590249333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%BA"
    title: "يوين كوك يونغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "يوين كوك يونج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yuen Kwok-yung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuen_Kwok-yung"
    title: "Yuen Kwok-yung"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%88%EA%B6%89%EC%9C%B5"
    title: "윈궉융"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwok-Yung_Yuen"
    title: "Kwok-Yung Yuen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AE%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BE%D0%BA_%D0%AE%D0%BD"
    title: "Юень Куок Юн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A2%81%E5%9C%8B%E5%8B%87"
    title: "袁國勇"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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