# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-payne
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:31:51.062Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-payne"
name: "Roger Payne"
slug: "roger-payne"
description: "Roger Searle Payne was an American biologist and environmentalist famous for his 1967 discovery of whale song among humpback whales. Payne later became an important figure in the worldwide campaign to end commercial whaling."
tagline: "American biologist (1935–2023)"
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: "1935-01-29"
deathDate: "2023-06-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.454216
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0668419/"
    handle:    "nm0668419"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Roger Payne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Payne"
    title: "Roger Payne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Payne"
    title: "Roger Payne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Payne"
    title: "Roger Payne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Payne"
    title: "Roger Payne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Roger Payne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Roger Payne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump