# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenneth-l-hale
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:32:04.788Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenneth-l-hale"
name: "Kenneth L. Hale"
slug: "kenneth-l-hale"
description: "Kenneth Locke Hale was an American linguist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studied a huge variety of previously unstudied and often endangered languages—especially indigenous languages of North America and Australia. Languages investigated by Hale include Navajo, O'odham, Warlpiri, Damin, and Ulwa."
tagline: "American linguist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ken_Hale_Mornington_Island%2C_Australia%2C_1967_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1934-08-15"
deathDate: "2001-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.434782608695653
  historical:           12.55684133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://linguistics.mit.edu/hale/"
sources:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump