# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tim-d-white
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:01:48.653Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tim-d-white"
name: "Tim D. White"
slug: "tim-d-white"
description: "Tim D. White is an American paleoanthropologist and Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for leading the team which discovered Ardi, the type specimen of Ardipithecus ramidus, a 4.4 million-year-old likely human ancestor. Prior to that discovery, his early career was notable for his work on Lucy as Australopithecus afarensis with discoverer Donald Johanson."
tagline: "American paleoanthropologist"
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country:
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birthDate: "1950-08-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump