# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-baldwin-spencer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:25:05.510Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-baldwin-spencer"
name: "Walter Baldwin Spencer"
slug: "walter-baldwin-spencer"
description: "Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer, commonly referred to as Sir Baldwin Spencer, was a British-Australian evolutionary biologist, anthropologist and ethnologist. He is known for his fieldwork with Aboriginal peoples in Central Australia, contributions to the study of ethnography, and academic collaborations with Frank Gillen. Spencer introduced the study of zoology at the University of Melbourne and held the title of Emeritus Professor until his death in 1929. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1900 and knighted in 1916."
tagline: "English-Australian biologist and anthropologist. (1860–1929)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1860-06-23"
deathDate: "1929-07-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump