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Andrew Wakefield

1957 - Today

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Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born 3 September 1956) is a British fraudster, anti-vaccine activist, and disgraced former physician. He was struck off the medical register for "serious professional misconduct" due to his involvement in the fraudulent 1998 Lancet MMR autism study that falsely claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. The publicity surrounding the study caused a sharp decline in vaccination uptake, leading to a number of outbreaks of measles around the world and many deaths therefrom. He was a surgeon on the liver transplant programme at the Royal Free Hospital in London, and became a senior lecturer and honorary consultant in experimental gastroenterology at the Royal Free and University College School of Medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andrew Wakefield is the 9th most popular inspiration (down from 8th in 2019), the 4,460th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,071st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Inspiration.

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Among inspirations, Andrew Wakefield ranks 9 out of 10Before him are Eugène François Vidocq, Jack LaLanne, Johann Georg Faust, Alice Liddell, Joseph Bell, and George Floyd.

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Among people born in 1957, Andrew Wakefield ranks 361Before him are Ricardo Montaner, Peter Englund, Erik Hamrén, Maxi Jazz, Bruce Payne, and Daniel Scioli. After him are Nana Visitor, François Legault, Jake E. Lee, Franco Frattini, Vladimir Kiselyov, and José Reinaldo de Lima.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Andrew Wakefield ranks 4,461 out of 8,785Before him are Jamie Hewlett (1968), Noah Taylor (1969), Kunal Nayyar (1981), Raymond Gosling (1926), Jonathan Palmer (1956), and Ian Botham (1955). After him are Anthony Harvey (1930), Kate O'Mara (1939), Charlotte Lewis (1967), George Chapman (1559), Dorothy Manley (1927), and Harry Blackstaffe (1868).

Among INSPIRATIONS In United Kingdom

Among inspirations born in United Kingdom, Andrew Wakefield ranks 3Before him are Alice Liddell (1852), and Joseph Bell (1837).