# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-spudis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:10:23.052Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-spudis"
name: "Paul Spudis"
slug: "paul-spudis"
description: "Paul D. Spudis (1952–2018) was an American geologist and lunar scientist. His specialty was the study of volcanism and impact processes on the planets, including Mercury and Mars."
tagline: "American geologist, astronomer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1952"
deathDate: "2018-08-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.005832
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1989821/"
    handle:    "nm1989821"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BF%9D%E7%BD%97%C2%B7%E6%96%AF%E6%99%AE%E8%92%82%E6%96%AF"
    title: "保罗·斯普蒂斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "بول سبوديس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Spudis"
    title: "Paul Spudis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Spudis"
    title: "Paul Spudis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Spudis"
    title: "Paul Spudis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Spudis"
    title: "Paul Spudis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Spudis"
    title: "Paul Spudis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Spudis"
    title: "Paul Spudis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5533790"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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