# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-watts
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:50:28.985Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-watts"
name: "Peter Watts"
slug: "peter-watts"
description: "Peter Watts is a Canadian science fiction author. He specializes in hard science fiction. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1991 from the Department of Zoology and Resource Ecology. He went on to hold several academic research and teaching positions, and worked as a marine-mammal biologist. He began publishing fiction around the time he finished graduate school."
tagline: "Canadian biologist and sci-fi author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Acceptance_speech_Peter_Watts.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1958-01-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.06406533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5058814/"
    handle:    "nm5058814"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://rifters.com/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پیتر واتز (یازیچی)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Watts"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Watts_(author)"
    title: "Peter Watts (author)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Watts_(escritor)"
    title: "Peter Watts (escritor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Watts"
    title: "Peter Watts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Watts"
    title: "Peter Watts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Watts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ピーター・ワッツ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Watts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Уоттс, Питер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Watts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Пітер Воттс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Watts (tác giả)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Peter Watts"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump