# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/floyd-lounsbury
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:19:41.951Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/floyd-lounsbury"
name: "Floyd Lounsbury"
slug: "floyd-lounsbury"
description: "Floyd Glenn Lounsbury was an American linguist, anthropologist and Mayanist scholar and epigrapher, best known for his work on linguistic and cultural systems of a variety of North and South American languages. Equally important were his contributions to understanding the hieroglyphs, culture and history of the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica."
tagline: "American mesoamericanist (1914–1998)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/Floyd_Lounsbury.png"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1914-04-25"
deathDate: "1998-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.904255319148938
  historical:           8.754861333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "弗洛伊德·朗恩斯伯里"
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    title: "Floyd Lounsbury"
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    title: "Floyd Lounsbury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Lounsbury"
    title: "Floyd Lounsbury"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Lounsbury"
    title: "Floyd Lounsbury"
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    title: "Floyd Lounsbury"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump