# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sylvia-a-earle
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:52:17.463Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sylvia-a-earle"
name: "Sylvia A. Earle"
slug: "sylvia-a-earle"
description: "Sylvia Alice Earle is an American marine biologist, oceanographer, explorer, writer, and lecturer. She has been a National Geographic Explorer at Large since 1998. Earle was the first chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and was named by Time Magazine as its first Hero for the Planet in 1998."
tagline: "American oceanographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SylviaEarle.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1935-08-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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