# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-proenneke
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:15:37.653Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-proenneke"
name: "Richard Proenneke"
slug: "richard-proenneke"
description: "Richard Louis Proenneke was an American self-educated naturalist, conservationist, writer, and wildlife photographer who, from the age of about 51, lived alone for nearly thirty years (1968–1998) in the mountains of Alaska in a log cabin that he constructed by hand near the shore of Twin Lakes. Proenneke hunted, fished, raised and gathered much of his own food, and also had supplies flown in occasionally. He documented his activities in journals and on film, and also recorded valuable meteorological and natural data. The journals and film were later used by others to write books and produce documentaries about his time in the wilderness."
tagline: "American naturalist (1916–2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Proenneke.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1916-05-04"
deathDate: "2003-04-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.11
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.147776
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1797515/"
    handle:    "nm1797515"
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    title: "Richard Proenneke"
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    title: "Richard Proenneke"
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    title: "Richard Proenneke"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump