# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lee-berger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:54:22.313Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lee-berger"
name: "Lee Berger"
slug: "lee-berger"
description: "Lee Rogers Berger is an American-South African paleoanthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. He is best known for his discovery of the Australopithecus sediba type site, Malapa; his leadership of Rising Star Expedition in the excavation of Homo naledi at Rising Star Cave; and the Taung Bird of Prey Hypothesis."
tagline: "American paleoanthropologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lee_Berger_image_2006.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1965-12-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "ProfLeeRBerger"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump