# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-ostrom
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:18:38.463Z

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name: "John Ostrom"
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description: "John Harold Ostrom was an American paleontologist who revolutionized the modern understanding of dinosaurs. Ostrom's work inspired what his pupil Robert T. Bakker has termed a \"dinosaur renaissance\"."
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birthDate: "1928-02-18"
deathDate: "2005-07-16"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump