# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-sebeok
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:35:40.050Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-sebeok"
name: "Thomas Sebeok"
slug: "thomas-sebeok"
description: "Thomas Albert Sebeok was a Hungarian-born American polymath, semiotician, and linguist. As one of the founders of the biosemiotics field, he studied non-human and cross-species signaling and communication. He is also known for his work in the development of long-term nuclear waste warning messages, in which he worked with the Human Interference Task Force to create methods for keeping the inhabitants of Earth away from buried nuclear waste that will still be hazardous 10,000 or more years in the future."
tagline: "American semiotician (1920-2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SebeokinTartu_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1920-11-09"
deathDate: "2001-12-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.030852
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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