# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-r-swanton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:39:43.751Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-r-swanton"
name: "John R. Swanton"
slug: "john-r-swanton"
description: "John Reed Swanton was an American anthropologist, folklorist, and linguist who worked with Native American peoples throughout the United States. Swanton achieved recognition in the fields of ethnology and ethnohistory. He is particularly noted for his work with indigenous peoples of the Southeast and Pacific Northwest."
tagline: "American anthropologist and linguist (1873-1958)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_R._Swanton's_portrait_in_a_1903_newspaper_called_The_Evening_Star.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1873-02-19"
deathDate: "1958-05-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.2108
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "John Reed Swanton"
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    title: "John Reed Swanton"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Swanton"
    title: "John R. Swanton"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Swanton"
    title: "John R. Swanton"
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    title: "John R. Swanton"
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  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Reed_Swanton"
    title: "John Reed Swanton"
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    title: "John R. Swanton"
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    title: "Суонтон, Джон"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump