# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-winchell
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:37:17.791Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-winchell"
name: "Alexander Winchell"
slug: "alexander-winchell"
description: "Alexander Winchell was an American geologist who contributed to this field mainly as an educator and a popular lecturer and writer. His views on evolution aroused controversy among his contemporaries; today the racism of these views is more cause for comment."
tagline: "U.S. geologist and paleontologist (1824-1891)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexander_Winchell3.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1824-12-31"
deathDate: "1891-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.746005333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ألكسندر وينشل"
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    title: "Alexander Winchell"
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    title: "Alexander Winchell"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump