# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-willis-stovall
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:38:22.699Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-willis-stovall"
name: "J. Willis Stovall"
slug: "j-willis-stovall"
description: "John Willis Stovall was an American paleontologist at the University of Oklahoma. Along with his student Wann Langston, Jr., he named the theropod dinosaur Acrocanthosaurus in 1950. Most of his research centered on the Cimarron Valley region of extreme northwestern Oklahoma, which included his work regarding the Keyes meteorite."
tagline: "American paleontologist (1891-1953)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1891-01-28"
deathDate: "1953-07-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.202484
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جون ويليس ستوفال"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump