# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-f-sternberg
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:42:59.202Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-f-sternberg"
name: "George F. Sternberg"
slug: "george-f-sternberg"
description: "George Fryer Sternberg was an American paleontologist best known for his discovery in Gove County, Kansas of the \"fish-within-a-fish\" of Xiphactinus audax with a recently eaten Gillicus arcuatus within its stomach. Sternberg was born in Lawrence, Kansas, and began leading fossil-hunting expeditions in the early 1900s. He became field paleontologist and curator of the museum of natural history at Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas in 1927."
tagline: "American paleontologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hunting_dinosaurs_in_the_bad_lands_of_the_Red_Deer_River%2C_Alberta%2C_Canada%3B_a_sequel_to_The_life_of_a_fossil_hunter_(1917)_(20765045131).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1883-08-26"
deathDate: "1969-10-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.874298666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_F._Sternberg"
    title: "George F. Sternberg"
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    title: "جورج إف. ستيرنبيرغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "George F. Sternberg"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_F._Sternberg"
    title: "George F. Sternberg"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_F._Sternberg"
    title: "George F. Sternberg"
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    title: "ジョージ・フライヤー・スタンバーグ"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5539145"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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