# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-wendell-williston
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:02:12.814Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-wendell-williston"
name: "Samuel Wendell Williston"
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description: "Samuel Wendell Williston was an American educator, entomologist, and paleontologist who was the first to propose that birds developed flight cursorially, rather than arboreally. He was a specialist on the flies, Diptera."
tagline: "American paleontologist (1851–1918)"
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gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1851-07-10"
deathDate: "1918-08-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump