# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lieuwe-dirk-boonstra
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:27:58.581Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lieuwe-dirk-boonstra"
name: "Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra"
slug: "lieuwe-dirk-boonstra"
description: "Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra was a South African palaeontologist whose work focused on the mammal-like reptiles of the Middle and Late Permian, whose fossil remains are common in the South African Karoo. He was the author of a large number of papers on Therapsids and Pareiasaurs, and described and revised a number of species."
tagline: "South African paleontologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
birthDate: "1905"
deathDate: "1975"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.26
  momentum:             9.999999999999998
  historical:           7.001764
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%B5_%D0%94%D1%96%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%91%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Ліве Дірк Бунстра"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieuwe_Dirk_Boonstra"
    title: "Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieuwe_Dirk_Boonstra"
    title: "Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieuwe_Dirk_Boonstra"
    title: "Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieuwe_Dirk_Boonstra"
    title: "Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieuwe_Dirk_Boonstra"
    title: "Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieuwe_Dirk_Boonstra"
    title: "Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieuwe_Dirk_Boonstra"
    title: "Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9022339"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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