# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-harrisson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:03:37.488Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-harrisson"
name: "Tom Harrisson"
slug: "tom-harrisson"
description: "Major Tom Harnett Harrisson, DSO, OBE was an Argentine-born British polymath. In the course of his life he was an ornithologist, explorer, journalist, broadcaster, soldier, guerrilla, ethnologist, museum curator, archaeologist, documentarian, film-maker, conservationist and writer. He was often described as an anthropologist, and sometimes referred to as the \"Barefoot Anthropologist\"."
tagline: "British polymath (1911–1976)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Answering_You-_the_Production_of_a_BBC_Radio_Programme_For_the_United_States_of_America%2C_1941_D4564.jpg/330px-Answering_You-_the_Production_of_a_BBC_Radio_Programme_For_the_United_States_of_America%2C_1941_D4564.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1911-09-26"
deathDate: "1976-01-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.16
  momentum:             3.911415797317437
  historical:           6.158821333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Harnett_Harrisson"
    title: "Thomas Harnett Harrisson"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "توم هاريسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Harrisson"
    title: "Tom Harrisson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Harrisson"
    title: "Tom Harrisson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Harnett_Harrisson"
    title: "Thomas Harnett Harrisson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Harrisson"
    title: "Tom Harrisson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Harrisson"
    title: "Tom Harrisson"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1245728"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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