# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sue-hendrickson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:29:47.717Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sue-hendrickson"
name: "Sue Hendrickson"
slug: "sue-hendrickson"
description: "Susan Hendrickson is an American explorer and fossil collector. Hendrickson is best known for her discovery of the remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex in South Dakota on August 12, 1990, in the Cheyenne River Reservation. Her discovery is the most complete skeleton of Tyrannosaurus known to science. This skeleton is now known as \"Sue\" in honor of her. It is on display at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. She has also found other important fossils and artifacts around the world."
tagline: "American paleontologist and archeologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sue_Hendrickson_reading_to_children_about_fossils_%26_dinosaurs_by_Randy_Johnson_in_2001.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1949-12-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           14.096228
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump