# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-george-stead
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:29:25.612Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-george-stead"
name: "David George Stead"
slug: "david-george-stead"
description: "David George Stead was an Australian marine biologist, ichthyologist, oceanographer, conservationist and writer. He was born at St Leonards in Sydney, and educated at public schools and the Sydney Technical College. In 1909 he was a founder of, and during its early years the main driving force behind, the Wildlife Preservation Society of Australia. In December 1912 he became an inaugural committee member of the Eugenics Society of New South Wales. His career included many government positions both in Australia and in Malaya. He served as the Australian representative on international committees concerned with fisheries science, marine biology and oceanography. He was a managing director of the Australian Whaling Company. He married three times, the third time to botanist and writer Thistle Yolette Harris in 1951. He died at his home in Watsons Bay, Sydney."
tagline: "Australian marine biologist (1877-1957)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d0/David_George_Stead.jpeg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1877-03-06"
deathDate: "1957-08-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.307692307692307
  historical:           3.738193333333333
  currentAttention:     12.82051282051282
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ديفيد جورج ستيد"
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    title: "ديفيد جورج ستيد"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_George_Stead"
    title: "David George Stead"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_George_Stead"
    title: "David George Stead"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5234086"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump