# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-du-toit
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:58:59.816Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-du-toit"
name: "Alexander du Toit"
slug: "alexander-du-toit"
description: "Alexander Logie du Toit FRS was a geologist from South Africa and an early supporter of Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift."
tagline: "South African geologist (1878-1948)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1878-03-14"
deathDate: "1948-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.66
  momentum:             6
  historical:           11.34388133333333
  currentAttention:     33.33333333333333
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Александер дю Туа"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_du_Toit"
    title: "Alexander du Toit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%AF%D9%88_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "ألكسندر دو توا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%AF%D9%88_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "الكسندر دو توا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Du_Toit"
    title: "Alexander Du Toit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_du_Toit"
    title: "Alexander du Toit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Logie_du_Toit"
    title: "Alexander Logie du Toit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_du_Toit"
    title: "Alexander du Toit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%83%AF"
    title: "アレクサンダー・デュ・トワ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Du_Toit"
    title: "Alexander Du Toit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Du_Toit"
    title: "Alexander Du Toit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Du_Toit"
    title: "Alexander Du Toit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Logie_du_Toit"
    title: "Alexander Logie du Toit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1363518"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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