# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/louis-leakey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:12:19.616Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/louis-leakey"
name: "Louis Leakey"
slug: "louis-leakey"
description: "Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow palaeoanthropologist Mary Leakey. Having established a programme of palaeoanthropological inquiry in eastern Africa, he also motivated many future generations to continue this scholarly work. Several members of the Leakey family became prominent scholars themselves."
tagline: "Kenyan-British archaeologist and naturalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/(left_to_right)_Mary_Douglas_Nicol_Leakey_(1913-1996)_and_her_husband_Louis_Seymour_Bazett_Leakey_(1903-1972).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1903-08-07"
deathDate: "1972-10-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           22.319644
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump