# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hugh-falconer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:32:08.900Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hugh-falconer"
name: "Hugh Falconer"
slug: "hugh-falconer"
description: "Hugh Falconer was a Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist, and paleoanthropologist. He studied the flora, fauna, and geology of India, Assam, Burma, and most of the Mediterranean islands and was the first to suggest the modern evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium. He studied the Siwalik fossil beds, and may also have been the first person to discover a fossil ape."
tagline: "Scottish scientist (1808–1865)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hugh_Falconer.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1808-02-29"
deathDate: "1865-01-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.95014533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump