# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-paul-griffin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:49:54.069Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-paul-griffin"
name: "Ian Paul Griffin"
slug: "ian-paul-griffin"
description: "Ian Paul Griffin is a New Zealand astronomer, discoverer of minor planets and a public spokesman upon scientific matters. He is currently the Director of Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand. Griffin was the CEO of Science Oxford, in Oxford, United Kingdom, and the former head of public outreach at NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute."
tagline: "British astronome"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DrIanPGriffin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1966"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.2
  momentum:             0.3076923076923077
  historical:           8.738157333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-griffin-286733282/"
    handle:    "ian-griffin-286733282"
sources:
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    title: "آئی پی گرفن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "إيان بي غريفين"
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    title: "ايان بى جريفين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_P._Griffin"
    title: "Ian P. Griffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_P._Griffin"
    title: "Ian P. Griffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_P._Griffin"
    title: "Ian P. Griffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_P._Griffin"
    title: "Ian P. Griffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_P._Griffin"
    title: "Ian P. Griffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_P._Griffin"
    title: "Ian P. Griffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_P._Griffin"
    title: "Ian P. Griffin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump