# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-potts
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:44:37.449Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-potts"
name: "Richard Potts"
slug: "richard-potts"
description: "Richard B. Potts is a paleoanthropologist and has been the director of the Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History's Human Origins Program since 1985. He is the curator of the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian."
tagline: "American archaeologist, prehistorian, anthropologist and paleoanthropologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rick_Potts_of_the_Smithsonian_in_his_office.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953-08-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39
  momentum:             3.75
  historical:           6.137509333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%B9%D8%B3"
    title: "رک پوٹس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "ريك بوتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "ريك بوتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Potts_(Anthropologe)"
    title: "Richard Potts (Anthropologe)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Potts"
    title: "Rick Potts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Potts"
    title: "Rick Potts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82%D1%81%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Поттс, Рик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2150392"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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