# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tessa-wheeler
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:19:19.925Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tessa-wheeler"
name: "Tessa Wheeler"
slug: "tessa-wheeler"
description: "Tessa Wheeler was a South Africa-born English archaeologist who made significant contributions to techniques used in archaeological excavation and contributed to the setting up of major British archaeological institutions after the Second World War."
tagline: "British archaeologist (1893-1936)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a0/Tessa_Wheeler_Verulamium_1930s.jpeg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1893-03-27"
deathDate: "1936-04-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.29
  momentum:             0.7089552238805971
  historical:           5.876998666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessa_Wheeler"
    title: "Tessa Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessa_Wheeler"
    title: "Tessa Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessa_Wheeler"
    title: "Tessa Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessa_Wheeler"
    title: "Tessa Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessa_Wheeler"
    title: "Tessa Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessa_Wheeler"
    title: "Tessa Wheeler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2406260"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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