# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-irwin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:59:48.810Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-irwin"
name: "Mike Irwin"
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description: "Michael J. Irwin is a British astronomer. He is the director of the Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit and one of the discoverers of the Cetus Dwarf galaxy and the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy."
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country:
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category:
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livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump