# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-g-palaima
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:45:00.423Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-g-palaima"
name: "Thomas G. Palaima"
slug: "thomas-g-palaima"
description: "Thomas G. Palaima is a Mycenologist, the Robert M. Armstrong Centennial Professor and the founding director of the university's Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP) in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin."
tagline: "American classical scholar"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
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birthDate: "1951-10-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/classics/faculty/palaimat"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "توماس جى باليما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Thomas G. Palaima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_G._Palaima"
    title: "Thomas G. Palaima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_G._Palaima"
    title: "Thomas G. Palaima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_G._Palaima"
    title: "Thomas G. Palaima"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Палайма, Томас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump