# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonard-compagno
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:20:30.624Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leonard-compagno"
name: "Leonard Compagno"
slug: "leonard-compagno"
description: "Leonard Joseph Victor Compagno was an international authority on shark taxonomy and the author of many scientific papers and books on the subject, best known of which is his 1984 catalogue of shark species produced for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Compagno was mentioned in the credits of the 1975 film Jaws along with the National Geographic Society."
tagline: "American shark ichthyologist (1943–2024)"
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: "1943-12-04"
deathDate: "2024-09-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.672786666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ليونارد كومپاجنو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leonard Compagno"
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    title: "Leonard Compagno"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Compagno"
    title: "Leonard Compagno"
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  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Compagno"
    title: "Leonard Compagno"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Compagno"
    title: "Leonard Compagno"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Compagno"
    title: "Leonard Compagno"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "เลินนาร์ด คอมเพจโน"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump