# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/russell-gray
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:32:37.768Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/russell-gray"
name: "Russell Gray"
slug: "russell-gray"
description: "Russell David Gray is a New Zealand evolutionary Biologist and Psychologist working on applying quantitative methods to the study of cultural evolution and human prehistory. In 2020, he became a co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Although originally trained in biology and psychology, Gray has become well known for his studies on the evolution of the Indo-European and Austronesian language families using computational phylogenetic methods."
tagline: "New Zealand linguist and evolutionary biologist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.10344827586207
  historical:           6.139849333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "உருசெல் டேவிட் கிரே"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Gray"
    title: "Russell Gray"
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    title: "Russell Gray"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Gray"
    title: "Russell Gray"
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    title: "Грей, Рассел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_D._Gray"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7381529"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump