# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/quentin-d-wheeler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:24:43.518Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/quentin-d-wheeler"
name: "Quentin D. Wheeler"
slug: "quentin-d-wheeler"
description: "Quentin Duane Wheeler is an American entomologist, taxonomist, author and newspaper columnist, and is the founding director of the International Institute for Species Exploration. He was the fourth President of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, in Syracuse, New York until his retirement. Other positions have included: professor of entomology at Cornell University and Arizona State University; Keeper and Head of Entomology at the Natural History Museum in London; and Director of the Division of Environmental Biology at the National Science Foundation."
tagline: "American entomologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Quentin-Wheeler-2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1954-01-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.136069333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Quentin D. Wheeler"
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    title: "كوينتن د. ويلر"
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    title: "كوينتن د. ويلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Quentin D. Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_D._Wheeler"
    title: "Quentin D. Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_D._Wheeler"
    title: "Quentin D. Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_D._Wheeler"
    title: "Quentin D. Wheeler"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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