# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oliver-payne-pearson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:34:53.053Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oliver-payne-pearson"
name: "Oliver Payne Pearson"
slug: "oliver-payne-pearson"
description: "Oliver Payne Pearson, or \"Paynie\" to many that knew him, was an American zoologist and ecologist. Over a very active 50-year career, he served as professor of zoology at UC Berkeley and curator of mammals at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. Pearson is best known for his work on the role of predation on vole demography and population cycles, and for his piercing contributions to the biology of South American mammals, but his earlier studies on reproductive and physiological ecology are highly regarded as well."
tagline: "United States zoologist and ecologist (1915-2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/OPPearson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1915-10-21"
deathDate: "2003-03-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.33
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.202304
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%9F%D1%96%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Олівер Пірсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "أوليفر باين بيرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "اوليفر باين بيرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Payne_Pearson"
    title: "Oliver Payne Pearson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Paynie_Pearson"
    title: "Oliver Paynie Pearson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Paynie_Pearson"
    title: "Oliver Paynie Pearson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Payne_Pearson"
    title: "Oliver Payne Pearson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Payne_Pearson"
    title: "Oliver Payne Pearson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2275751"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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