# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-wiffen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:23:11.781Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joan-wiffen"
name: "Joan Wiffen"
slug: "joan-wiffen"
description: "Joan Wiffen was a self-taught New Zealand paleontologist known for discovering the first dinosaur fossils in New Zealand."
tagline: "New Zealand paleontologist (1922 - 2009)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/75/Joan_Wiffen_with_fossil.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
birthDate: "1922-02-04"
deathDate: "2009-06-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.7
  momentum:             0.5633802816901409
  historical:           6.341433333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Joan Wiffen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Wiffen"
    title: "Joan Wiffen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Wiffen"
    title: "Joan Wiffen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Wiffen"
    title: "Joan Wiffen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Wiffen"
    title: "Joan Wiffen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Уиффен, Джоан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Wiffen"
    title: "Joan Wiffen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6205567"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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