# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yohannes-haile-selassie
# Generated: 2026-08-16T04:42:08.600Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yohannes-haile-selassie"
name: "Yohannes Haile-Selassie"
slug: "yohannes-haile-selassie"
description: "Yohannes Haile-Selassie Ambaye is an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist. An authority on pre-Homo sapiens hominids, he particularly focuses his attention on the East African Rift and Middle Awash valleys.\nHe was curator of Physical Anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History from 2002 until 2021, and now is serving as the director of the Arizona State University Institute of Human Origins. Since founding the institute in 1981, he has been the third director after Donald Johanson and William Kimbel."
tagline: "Ethiopian paleoanthropologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yohannes_Haile-Selassie.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1961-02-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           9.8225
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Йоганнес Гайле-Селассіє"
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    title: "Yohannes Haile-Selassie"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump