# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-j-currie
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:17:43.334Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-j-currie"
name: "Philip J. Currie"
slug: "philip-j-currie"
description: "Philip John Currie is a Canadian palaeontologist and museum curator who helped found the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta and is now a professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. In the 1980s, he became the director of the Canada-China Dinosaur Project, the first cooperative palaeontological partnering between China and the West since the Central Asiatic Expeditions in the 1920s, and helped describe some of the first feathered dinosaurs. He is one of the primary editors of the influential Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, and his areas of expertise include theropods, the origin of birds, and dinosaurian migration patterns and herding behavior. He was one of the models for palaeontologist Alan Grant in the film Jurassic Park."
tagline: "Canadian paleontologist and museum curator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Philip_Currie%2C_Edmonton_dinosour_dig_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1949-03-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump