# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/percy-smith
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:34:12.370Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/percy-smith"
name: "Percy Smith"
slug: "percy-smith"
description: "Stephenson Percy Smith was a New Zealand ethnologist and surveyor. He researched and wrote about the origins of the Māori people and was one of the founders of the Polynesian Society. While his research has been criticised as flawed, it set a foundation for ethnological study in New Zealand."
tagline: "New Zealand surveyor and ethnologist (1840–1922)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SPSmith1908.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1840-06-11"
deathDate: "1922-04-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.58
  momentum:             3.26086956521739
  historical:           5.674298666666667
  currentAttention:     18.1159420289855
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenson_Percy_Smith"
    title: "Stephenson Percy Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%AE)"
    title: "بيرسي سميث (مؤرخ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%AE_%D9%85%D9%86_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7)"
    title: "بيرسى سميث (مؤرخ من نيوزيلاندا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Smith_(etnologo)"
    title: "Percy Smith (etnologo)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Smith_(ethnologist)"
    title: "Percy Smith (ethnologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephenson_Percy_Smith"
    title: "Stephenson Percy Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7610997"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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