# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/terry-lovejoy
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:18:25.841Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/terry-lovejoy"
name: "Terry Lovejoy"
slug: "terry-lovejoy"
description: "Terry Lovejoy is an information technologist from Thornlands, Queensland, Australia, most widely known as an amateur astronomer. He has discovered six comets, including C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy), the first Kreutz Sungrazing comet discovered by ground-based observation in over 40 years. He is also known for popularizing procedures for modifying consumer-grade digital cameras so that they can be used for digital camera astrophotography."
tagline: "Australian information technologist and amateur astronomer from Queensland (born 1966)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Iss030e015472_Edit.jpg/330px-Iss030e015472_Edit.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
birthDate: "1966-11-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.411196
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 8
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/TerryLovejoy66"
    handle:    "TerryLovejoy66"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/terry.lovejoy.549"
    handle:    "terry.lovejoy.549"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWn0ohECfjNr0TRLE7ZAuLg"
    handle:    "@terrylovejoy9779"
    followers: 8
sources:
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    title: "特里·洛弗喬伊"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Terry Lovejoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Lovejoy"
    title: "Terry Lovejoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Lovejoy"
    title: "Terry Lovejoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "تری لاوجوی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Lovejoy"
    title: "Terry Lovejoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Lovejoy"
    title: "Terry Lovejoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Terry Lovejoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "テリー・ラヴジョイ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ടെറി ലവ്‌ജോയ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Lovejoy"
    title: "Terry Lovejoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Terry Lovejoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Lovejoy"
    title: "Terry Lovejoy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Лавджой, Терри"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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