# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-dennis-liu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:06:07.928Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-dennis-liu"
name: "John Dennis Liu"
slug: "john-dennis-liu"
description: "John Dennis Liu is a Chinese American film-maker and ecologist. He is also a researcher at several institutions. In January 2015, he was named Visiting Fellow at Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. John is also Ecosystem Ambassador for the Commonland Foundation based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 2017 John Liu founded Ecosystem Restoration Camps, a worldwide movement that aims to restore damaged ecosystems on a large scale."
tagline: "Filmmaker and ecologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_D_Liu%2C_World_Travel_%26_Tourism_Council%2C_Global_Summit_2014-1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1953-01-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.83
  momentum:             2.724014336917563
  historical:           5.279446666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/johndliu"
    handle:    "johndliu"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/john.d.liu"
    handle:    "john.d.liu"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/johndliu/"
    handle:    "johndliu"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6131443/"
    handle:    "nm6131443"
sources:
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Liu"
    title: "John D. Liu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF._%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88"
    title: "جون د. ليو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF._%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88"
    title: "جون د. ليو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Liu"
    title: "John D. Liu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Liu"
    title: "John D. Liu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Liu"
    title: "John D. Liu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16221580"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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