# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-fouts
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:18:41.036Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-fouts"
name: "Roger Fouts"
slug: "roger-fouts"
description: "Roger S. Fouts is a retired American primate researcher. He was co-founder and co-director of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute (CHCI) in Washington, and a professor of psychology at the Central Washington University. He is best known for his role in teaching Washoe the chimpanzee to communicate using a set of signs adapted from American sign language."
tagline: "American primate researcher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roger_S._Fouts.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: "1943-06-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.077466666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0288602/"
    handle:    "nm0288602"
sources:
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    title: "Роджер Фоутс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%B1_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "روجر فوتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Fouts"
    title: "Roger Fouts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%83%D1%82%D1%81%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Фоутс, Роджер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%B1_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "روجر فوتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Fouts"
    title: "Roger Fouts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Fouts"
    title: "Roger Fouts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Fouts"
    title: "Roger Fouts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q321708"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2794493"
    title: "Roger Fouts"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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