# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-fleay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:57:09.105Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-fleay"
name: "David Fleay"
slug: "david-fleay"
description: "David Howells Fleay was an Australian scientist and biologist who pioneered the captive breeding of endangered species, and was the first person to breed the platypus in captivity."
tagline: "Australian scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Fleay_and_a_brown_snake%2C_1954.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
birthDate: "1907-01-06"
deathDate: "1993-08-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.081174666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "David Fleay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fleay"
    title: "David Fleay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fleay"
    title: "David Fleay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fleay"
    title: "David Fleay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fleay"
    title: "David Fleay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fleay"
    title: "David Fleay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fleay"
    title: "David Fleay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4"
    title: "Флай, Дэвид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fleay"
    title: "David Fleay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3017915"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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