# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bernard-heuvelmans
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:56:08.827Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bernard-heuvelmans"
name: "Bernard Heuvelmans"
slug: "bernard-heuvelmans"
description: "Bernard Heuvelmans was a Belgian-French scientist, explorer, researcher, and writer probably best known, along with Scottish-American biologist Ivan T. Sanderson, as a founding figure in the pseudoscience and subculture of cryptozoology. His 1958 book On the Track of Unknown Animals is often regarded as one of the most influential cryptozoology texts."
tagline: "French cryptozoologist (1916-2001)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Author_photo_of_Bernard_Heuvelmans_%281968%29.png/330px-Author_photo_of_Bernard_Heuvelmans_%281968%29.png"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1916-10-10"
deathDate: "2001-08-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           14.456052
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump