# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilbur-c-knight
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:13:19.135Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilbur-c-knight"
name: "Wilbur C. Knight"
slug: "wilbur-c-knight"
description: "Wilbur Clinton Knight was a geologist and founding professor of geology at the University of Wyoming. He also served as state geologist for Wyoming and produced some of the earliest geological maps of the region. His son Samuel Howell Knight also became a geologist of repute. The genus Knightia is named in his honor."
tagline: "Geologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wilbur_C._Knight.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1858-12-13"
deathDate: "1903-07-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           32.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.934989333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Clinton_Knight"
    title: "Wilbur Clinton Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Clinton_Knight"
    title: "Wilbur Clinton Knight"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Clinton_Knight"
    title: "Wilbur Clinton Knight"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Clinton_Knight"
    title: "Wilbur Clinton Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17675947"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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