# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-k-benedict
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:39:08.990Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-k-benedict"
name: "Paul K. Benedict"
slug: "paul-k-benedict"
description: "Paul King Benedict was an American anthropologist, mental health professional, and linguist who specialized in languages of East and Southeast Asia. He is well known for his 1942 proposal of the Austro-Tai language family and also his reconstruction of Proto-Sino-Tibetan and Proto-Tibeto-Burman. He was also a practicing psychiatrist in the New York area for 20 years and was also a pioneer in the field of ethnopsychiatry."
tagline: "American anthropologist, mental health professional, and linguist (1912–1997)"
gender: "male"
country:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1912-07-05"
deathDate: "1997-07-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump