# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/masafumi-matsui
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:22:02.500Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/masafumi-matsui"
name: "Masafumi Matsui"
slug: "masafumi-matsui"
description: "Masafumi Matsui is a Japanese zoologist and herpetologist, and a professor emeritus at Kyoto University. He is a leading researcher in amphibian studies and a recipient of the Zoological Society of Japan Prize. He also served as president of the Herpetological Society of Japan."
tagline: "Herpetologist from Japan"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.76
  momentum:             19.4
  historical:           6.537221333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%83%D1%97_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%83%D0%BC%D1%96"
    title: "Мацуї Масафумі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masafumi_Matsui"
    title: "Masafumi Matsui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masafumi_Matsui"
    title: "Masafumi Matsui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masafumi_Matsui"
    title: "Masafumi Matsui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BE%E4%BA%95%E6%AD%A3%E6%96%87"
    title: "松井正文"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masafumi_Matsui"
    title: "Masafumi Matsui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masafumi_Matsui"
    title: "Masafumi Matsui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3297106"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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