# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hyojiro-orii
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:46:07.673Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hyojiro-orii"
name: "Hyōjirō Orii"
slug: "hyojiro-orii"
description: "Orii Hyōjirō  was a Japanese specimen collector of birds and mammals. At least a hundred new species and subspecies were described based on the type specimens he collected, a 2014 review putting the total, among taxa currently recognized, at 14 species and 41 subspecies of mammal, and 6 species and 68 subspecies of bird. The 7 mammal and 10 bird taxa named in honour of \"Orii of the Orient\", as he came to be known, include the Ryūkyū shrew and now-extinct Daitō varied tit."
tagline: "Japanese specimen collector (1883–1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hy%C5%8Djir%C5%8D_Orii_%E6%8A%98%E5%B1%85%E5%BD%AA%E4%BA%8C%E9%83%8E.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1883-07-15"
deathDate: "1970-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.74
  momentum:             0.2542372881355933
  historical:           4.604356
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orii_Hy%C5%8Djir%C5%8D"
    title: "Orii Hyōjirō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy%C5%8Djir%C5%8D_Orii"
    title: "Hyōjirō Orii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%8A%98%E5%B1%85%E5%BD%AA%E4%BA%8C%E9%83%8E"
    title: "折居彪二郎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A5%D1%91%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE"
    title: "Ории, Хёдзиро"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hy%C5%8Djir%C5%8D_Orii"
    title: "Hyōjirō Orii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11863911"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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