# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-conant
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:00:33.316Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-conant"
name: "Roger Conant"
slug: "roger-conant"
description: "Roger Conant was an American herpetologist, author, educator and conservationist. He was Director Emeritus of the Philadelphia Zoo and adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico. He wrote one of the first comprehensive field guides for North American reptiles in 1958 entitled: A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, in the Peterson Field Guide series."
tagline: "American zoologist (1909-2003)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1909-05-06"
deathDate: "2003-12-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.66
  momentum:             0.2766798418972332
  historical:           5.676026666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Roger Conant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Conant"
    title: "Roger Conant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Conant_(herpetologist)"
    title: "Roger Conant (herpetologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Conant"
    title: "Roger Conant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Conant_(herp%C3%A9tologiste)"
    title: "Roger Conant (herpétologiste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Conant"
    title: "Roger Conant"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2161670"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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