# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/storrs-l-olson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:14:39.728Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/storrs-l-olson"
name: "Storrs L. Olson"
slug: "storrs-l-olson"
description: "Storrs Lovejoy Olson was an American biologist and ornithologist who spent his career at the Smithsonian Institution, retiring in 2008. One of the world's foremost avian paleontologists, he was best known for his studies of fossil and subfossil birds on islands such as Ascension, St. Helena and Hawaii. His early higher education took place at Florida State University in 1966, where he obtained a B.A. in biology, and the University of Florida, where he received an M.S. in biology. Olson's doctoral studies took place at Johns Hopkins University, in what was then the School of Hygiene and Public Health. He was married to fellow paleornithologist Helen F. James."
tagline: "American biologist and ornithologist (1944–2021)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1944-04-03"
deathDate: "2021-01-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump