# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-frank-goodchild
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:32:43.272Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-frank-goodchild"
name: "Michael Frank Goodchild"
slug: "michael-frank-goodchild"
description: "Michael Frank Goodchild is a British-American geographer. He is an Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. After nineteen years at the University of Western Ontario, including three years as chair, he moved to Santa Barbara in 1988, as part of the establishment of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, which he directed for over 20 years. In 2008, he founded the UCSB Center for Spatial Studies."
tagline: "Professor of geographic information science"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Frank_Goodchild_-_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1944-02-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.9482758620689655
  historical:           7.209144
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "مايكل فرانك غودتشايلد"
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    title: "Michael Frank Goodchild"
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    title: "Michael Frank Goodchild"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Frank Goodchild"
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    title: "Michael Frank Goodchild"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump