# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-lawrence-hoffman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:22:04.990Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-lawrence-hoffman"
name: "Richard Lawrence Hoffman"
slug: "richard-lawrence-hoffman"
description: "Richard Lawrence Hoffman was an American zoologist known as an international expert on millipedes, and a leading authority on the natural history of Virginia and the Appalachian Mountains. He was a biology professor at Virginia's Radford College for almost thirty years, and curator of invertebrates at the Virginia Museum of Natural History for another twenty years. He co-founded the Virginia Natural History Society, described over 400 species of millipedes, and produced more than 480 scientific publications. He is commemorated in the scientific and/or common names of over 30 animal species, including the valley and ridge salamander and Hoffman's dwarf centipede."
tagline: "U.S. zoologist (1927–2012)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/Richard_L_Hoffman_portrait.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1927-09-25"
deathDate: "2012-06-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump