# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kirk-r-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:24:12.542Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kirk-r-johnson"
name: "Kirk R. Johnson"
slug: "kirk-r-johnson"
description: "Kirk Richard Johnson is an American paleontologist, author, curator, and museum administrator, and is currently serving as Sant Director of Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History."
tagline: "Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and paleobotanist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kirk_R._Johnson_2032031.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1960-09-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.61566
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Leafdoctor"
    handle:    "Leafdoctor"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirk-johnson-16a31a5/"
    handle:    "kirk-johnson-16a31a5"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85)"
    title: "كيرك جونسون (عالم)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Johnson_(scientist)"
    title: "Kirk Johnson (scientist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Джонсон, Кирк Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Richard_Johnson"
    title: "Kirk Richard Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kirk_Johnson_(scientist)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15598030"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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