# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-du-chaillu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:43:13.561Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-du-chaillu"
name: "Paul du Chaillu"
slug: "paul-du-chaillu"
description: "Paul Belloni Du Chaillu was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas, and later the Pygmy people of central Africa. He later researched the prehistory of Scandinavia."
tagline: "French-American anthropologist, zoologist and traveler"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Paul_Belloni_Du_Chaillu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1835-07-31"
deathDate: "1903-04-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump