# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/meave-leakey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:34:11.136Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/meave-leakey"
name: "Meave Leakey"
slug: "meave-leakey"
description: "Meave G. Leakey is a British palaeoanthropologist. She works at Stony Brook University and is co-ordinator of Plio-Pleistocene research at the Turkana Basin Institute. She studies early hominid evolution and has done extensive field research in the Turkana Basin. She has Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Science degrees."
tagline: "British paleoanthropologist"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1942-07-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump