# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-vaupel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:42:11.446Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-vaupel"
name: "James Vaupel"
slug: "james-vaupel"
description: "James Walton Vaupel was an American scientist in the fields of aging research, biodemography, and formal demography. He was instrumental in developing and advancing the idea of the plasticity of longevity, and pioneered research on the heterogeneity of mortality risks and on the deceleration of death rates at the highest ages."
tagline: "American demographer (1945–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Vaupel_01.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945-05-02"
deathDate: "2022-03-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.76
  momentum:             5.225299710624225
  historical:           6.144565333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Vaupel"
    title: "James Vaupel"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "جيمس فوبيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Vaupel"
    title: "James W. Vaupel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Vaupel"
    title: "James Vaupel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Vaupel"
    title: "James Vaupel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Vaupel"
    title: "James Vaupel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Vaupel"
    title: "James Vaupel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q833843"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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