# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/reginald-claude-sprigg
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:47:04.934Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/reginald-claude-sprigg"
name: "Reginald Claude Sprigg"
slug: "reginald-claude-sprigg"
description: "Reginald Claude Sprigg was an Australian geologist and conservationist. At 17, sponsored by Walter Howchin, he became the youngest Fellow of the Royal Society of South Australia. During 1946, in the Ediacara Hills, South Australia he discovered the Ediacara biota, an assemblage of some of the most ancient animal fossils known. He was involved with oceanographic research and petroleum exploration by various companies that he initiated. In 1968, he acquired a derelict pastoral lease, Arkaroola, and transformed it into a wildlife sanctuary and wilderness reserve."
tagline: "Australian geologist (1919–1994)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
birthDate: "1919-03-01"
deathDate: "1994-12-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.5578512396694215
  historical:           8.751729333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Reginald Claude Sprigg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Reginald Sprigg"
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    title: "Reginald Sprigg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reg_Sprigg"
    title: "Reg Sprigg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reg_Sprigg"
    title: "Reg Sprigg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DA%AF_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%AF"
    title: "رگ اسپریگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Sprigg"
    title: "Reginald Sprigg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Sprigg"
    title: "Reginald Sprigg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%97%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%B0"
    title: "レッグ・スプリッグ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reg_Sprigg"
    title: "Reg Sprigg"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2138025"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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