# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-kitching
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:07:04.703Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-kitching"
name: "James Kitching"
slug: "james-kitching"
description: "James William Kitching was a South African vertebrate palaeontologist and regarded as one of the world’s greatest fossil finders."
tagline: "South African paleontologist (1922-2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Kitching.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
birthDate: "1922-02-06"
deathDate: "2003-12-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.91
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.470302666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kitching"
    title: "James Kitching"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kitching"
    title: "James Kitching"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kitching"
    title: "James Kitching"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_William_Kitching"
    title: "James William Kitching"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kitching"
    title: "James Kitching"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Kitching"
    title: "James W. Kitching"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1680672"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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