# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elwyn-l-simons
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:10:23.110Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elwyn-l-simons"
name: "Elwyn L. Simons"
slug: "elwyn-l-simons"
description: "Elwyn LaVerne Simons was an American paleontologist, paleozoologist, and a wildlife conservationist for primates. He was known as the father of modern primate paleontology for his discovery of some of humankind's earliest antecedents."
tagline: "U.S. paleontologist and primatologist (1930-2016)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-07-14"
deathDate: "2016-03-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.71
  momentum:             1.764705882352941
  historical:           6.802376
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ایلوین ایل سائمنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "الوين ال. سيمونس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwyn_Simons"
    title: "Elwyn Simons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwyn_L._Simons"
    title: "Elwyn L. Simons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwyn_L._Simons"
    title: "Elwyn L. Simons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwyn_L._Simons"
    title: "Elwyn L. Simons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwyn_L._Simons"
    title: "Elwyn L. Simons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwyn_LaVerne_Simons"
    title: "Elwyn LaVerne Simons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20266882"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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