# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hildegarde-howard
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:27:17.099Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hildegarde-howard"
name: "Hildegarde Howard"
slug: "hildegarde-howard"
description: "Hildegarde Howard was an American pioneer in paleornithology. She was mentored by the famous ornithologist, Joseph Grinnell, at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) and in avian paleontology. She was well known for her discoveries in the La Brea Tar Pits, among them the Rancho La Brea eagles. She discovered and described Pleistocene flightless waterfowl at the prehistoric Ballona wetlands of coastal Los Angeles County at Playa del Rey. In 1953, Howard became the third woman to be awarded the Brewster Medal. She was the first woman president of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Hildegarde wrote 150 papers throughout her career."
tagline: "American paleornithologist"
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gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1901-04-03"
deathDate: "1998-02-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  50
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump