# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leslie-white
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:24:13.670Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leslie-white"
name: "Leslie White"
slug: "leslie-white"
description: "Leslie Alvin White was an American anthropologist known for his advocacy of the theories on cultural evolution, sociocultural evolution, and especially neoevolutionism, and for his role in creating the department of anthropology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. White was president of the American Anthropological Association (1964)."
tagline: "American anthropologist (1900–1975)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1900-01-19"
deathDate: "1975-03-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.838628
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump