# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruud-kleinpaste
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:06:56.550Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruud-kleinpaste"
name: "Ruud Kleinpaste"
slug: "ruud-kleinpaste"
description: "Rudolf Hendrik Kleinpaste, generally known as Ruud Kleinpaste, is a New Zealand naturalist and host of the Animal Planet series Buggin' with Ruud."
tagline: "New Zealand naturalist (born 1952)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ruud_Kleinpaste_MNZM_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Indonesia"
  isoCode: "ID"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1952-04-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.89
  momentum:             0.7894736842105262
  historical:           5.473614666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0459138/"
    handle:    "nm0459138"
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruud_Kleinpaste"
    title: "Ruud Kleinpaste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF_%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "رود كلاين معجون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruud_Kleinpaste"
    title: "Ruud Kleinpaste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruud_Kleinpaste"
    title: "Ruud Kleinpaste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruud_Kleinpaste"
    title: "Ruud Kleinpaste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1411044"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1241641"
    title: "Ruud Kleinpaste"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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