# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helen-thayer
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:35:15.122Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helen-thayer"
name: "Helen Thayer"
slug: "helen-thayer"
description: "Helen Thayer is a New Zealand-born explorer who lives in the United States. In 2009, Thayer was named one of the most important explorers of the 20th century by the National Geographic Society."
tagline: "New Zealand explorer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1937-11-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.33
  momentum:             0.4210526315789473
  historical:           6.540461333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.helenthayer.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D1%94%D1%80"
    title: "Хелен Таєр"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "هيلين ثاير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Thayer"
    title: "Helen Thayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Thayer"
    title: "Helen Thayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Thayer"
    title: "Helen Thayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%84%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1"
    title: "هلن تایر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Thayer"
    title: "Helen Thayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5703264"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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