# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ed-krupp
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:08:13.127Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ed-krupp"
name: "Ed Krupp"
slug: "ed-krupp"
description: "Edwin Charles Krupp is an American astronomer, researcher, author, and popularizer of science. He is an internationally recognized expert in the field of archaeoastronomy, the study of how ancient cultures viewed the sky and how those views affected their cultures. He has taught at the college level, as a planetarium lecturer, and in various documentary films. He has been the director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles since first taking over the position in 1974 after the departure of the previous director, William J. Kaufmann III. His writings include science papers and journal articles, astronomy magazine articles, books on astronomy and archaeoastronomy for adults, and books explaining sky phenomena and astronomy to children."
tagline: "American astronomer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ed_Krupp_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1944-11-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.43
  momentum:             6.443870967741936
  historical:           5.281462666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1030673/"
    handle:    "nm1030673"
sources:
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF_%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%BE"
    title: "اد کروپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8"
    title: "إدوين تشارلز كروب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%BE"
    title: "اد كروپ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Krupp"
    title: "Ed Krupp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_C._Krupp"
    title: "Edwin C. Krupp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Krupp"
    title: "Ed Krupp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q176594"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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