# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-johanson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:28:42.390Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-johanson"
name: "Donald Johanson"
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description: "Donald Carl Johanson is an American paleoanthropologist. He is best known for discovering the fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as \"Lucy\" in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia."
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birthDate: "1943-06-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump